With two weeks left for public comments, the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is probing constraints on key global shipping ...

Incredible wildlife, massive oil and natural gas, natural beauty and native culture are what Alaska is known for.

A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying ...

The results didn’t come as a surprise to scientists, who had been observing that Sea ice extension was at near or record low ...

It's said that March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, but this year, the fierce roar of Mother Nature lasted the ...

The warmer weather coincided with a decrease in Bering Sea ice; its seasonal maximum extent, reached on March 26, tied with the fourth-lowest amount since satellite records began 47 years ago ...

Mass changes across the Antarctic ice sheet have been detected using satellite gravimetry, revealing significant ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

In the dim twilight of an Arctic winter's day, with the low sun stretching its orange fingers across the frozen sea, a group of researchers drill a hole through the ice and insert a hydrogen ...