Even minor temperature changes show drastic impacts on Earth's North and South poles and soon one of them will turn ice-free.

Fears of the impact of global warming melting polar ice have intensified with news that for the first time the North Pole stands at the centre of a mile-wide (nearly two-kilometre wide ...

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Without a significant reduction in atmospheric carbon levels, there may not be enough ice to ski to the North Pole in the coming decades. The melting of these ice sheets exemplifies one of the many ...

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Chinese and Russian forces are increasing their patrols and operations in the US waters of the Arctic and High North ...

A 5900-year-old whitebark pine forest has been discovered due to the melting of alpine ice in the Rocky mountains. Scientists found more than 30 trees approximately 3100 metres above sea level ...

It is 84° north, longitude 160°, 400 miles from the North Pole (90° north, longitude 00°). is variously known as the Ice Pole, or the Inaccessible Pole or the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility.

Melting ice may cause dozens ... deep beneath the continent's ice sheet. Antarctica, a virtually uninhabited landmass that surround's Earth's south pole, is home to more than 100 volcanoes.