Arctic

New research has moved up the time by which the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be free of summer ice.A paper published Tuesday in the journal Nature has concluded that those northern waters could be open for months at a time as early as 2030,…

New research has moved up the time by which the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be free of summer ice. A paper published Tuesday in the journal Nature has concluded that those northern waters could be open for months at a time as early…

The first summer on record that melts practically all of the Arctic’s floating sea ice could occur as early as the 2030s, according to a new scientific study — about a decade sooner than researchers previously predicted.The peer-reviewed…

Resource-rich Russia has wide-ranging interests in what it calls Asia-Pacific or what India terms as Indo-Pacific. While these interests are independent of Chinese interests in the region, Moscow has been keen that India enhances its…

Male Arctic ground squirrels go through puberty every year. As if that wasn’t hard enough, now the females have a problem, too.According to a paper published on Thursday in the journal Science, climate change appears to be making them…

As the Arctic’s ice-bound ground warms, hazardous compounds may be released across the region, as per reports. Researchers on March 28 wrote in Nature Communications that by the end of the century, the thaw threatens to destabilise…

The Current17:26Arctic research stalled by the war in UkraineRead transcribed audioThe Arctic is warming four times faster than anywhere else in the world, making it a significant area of research for climate and environment researchers. …

MOSCOW : Driverless trucks produced by Russia's Kamaz have begun to carry cargoes across the snowy Arctic tundra for oil producer Gazprom Neft, the energy company said on Friday.Gazprom Neft said the trucks will service the…

A new WCS-led study that analyzed 17 years of migratory bird-nesting data in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, revealed that nest survival decreased significantly near high-use oil and gas infrastructure and its related noise, dust, traffic, air…

As the Arctic warms and loses sea ice, trans-Arctic shipping has increased, reducing travel time and costs for international trade. However, a new study finds that the Arctic Ocean is getting foggier as ice disappears, reducing visibility…