Arctic Sea

Troubled Oceans at the Bottom of the World

Al Gore | Posted 04.02.2012

Al Gore

Acidifying oceans, a result of the same carbon dioxide pollution that is warming our planet, is a problem of multiple dimensions.

Russian President Talks Tough Over Control Of Arctic Sea

AP | By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 01.11.2012

MOSCOW -- President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Russia must invest more in the Arctic amid tough competition from other nations for the region's ...

PHOTOS: 'Nothing Had Prepared Me' For First Encounter With Beluga Whales

Posted 12.08.2011

From Uri Golman: Since I was a child I have always been preoccupied with everything wild. I used to sit in school and daydream for hours about futu...

WATCH: Warming Arctic Interactive Exhibit

Posted 09.14.2011

In the face of a warming world, the Arctic landscape is changing, as a new interactive exhibit at London's Maritime Museum illustrates. David Silli...

A Marshall Plan for Nature: How to Protect Endangered Species from Climate Change

Leda Huta | Posted 05.25.2011

Leda Huta

With our new report, the Endangered Species Coalition and our member groups attempt to answer the question: To save endangered species from climate change, where do we begin?

Summer Solstice Meets Record Low Arctic Ice

Benjamin Strauss | Posted 05.25.2011

Benjamin Strauss

As the climate has warmed over recent decades, high temperatures have arrived earlier on average, and a symphony of seasonal events along with them, from plant blooming dates to animal migrations to peak flow levels in snow-fed streams.

Polar Bears Forced To Relocate To Land And Water

LiveScience | Posted 05.25.2011

As Arctic sea ice melts, polar bears are changing their habitat, shifting from their preferred ice hunting grounds to land and open water, according t...

North Pole Summers Will Be Ice-Free In A Decade

AP | MARESA PATIENCE | Posted 05.25.2011

AP LONDON -- The North Pole will turn into an open sea during summer within a decade, according to data released Wednesday by a team of explorers who ...

Global Warming: 2 German Cargo Ships Pass Through 'Arctic Passage'

AP | MATT MOORE and SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

FRANKFURT — Two German merchant ships have traversed the fabled Northeast Passage after global warming and melting ice opened a route from South...

Arctic Sea Case: Russia Charges 8

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

MOSCOW — Russia has formally filed criminal charges against eight alleged hijackers of the freighter Arctic Sea, whose voyage is still heavily s...

Arctic Sea Hijacking: Russia Arrests 8 Suspects

AP | JIM HEINTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

MOSCOW — The high seas mystery over the freighter Arctic Sea was far from solved Monday after the Russian navy found the ship off West Africa, f...

Missing Cargo Ship "Arctic Sea" Still Bewilders Authorities, Two Weeks Later

The Washington Post | Edward Cody and Karla Adam | Posted 05.25.2011

The Arctic Sea, a 4,700-ton cargo ship registered in Malta, owned by Russians and crewed by 15 Siberian sailors, dropped off the map shortly after it ...

English Channel Ship Mystery: Russian Navy Searches Atlantic

AP | LYNN BERRY | Posted 05.25.2011

MOSCOW -- The disappearance of a Russian-manned cargo ship in the Atlantic more than two weeks ago spawned a variety of theories and intriguing report...

Arctic Ice Melting At Record Rate

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has p...