As the Earth warms, new shipping routes from one side of the globe to the other are opening around Greenland, making the vast ...

Major cities across the Northeast and Midwest are facing temperatures 10-20 degrees below average, according to forecasters.

A fresh blast of Arctic air is poised to spill across a wide swath of the United States, and the latest polar vortex map ...

An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Artic Ocean. The study, which counts on the participation of the experts Miquel Canals, José Luis Casamor and ...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Science Foundation publicly released new 3-D topographic maps of Alaska Sept. 1 in support of a White House Arctic initiative to inform ...

FALMOUTH, MA — For the third year in a row, Woodwell Climate Research Center cartographers have won top awards for an Arctic map at the Esri User Conference. Originally founded as the Woods Hole ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. River aufeis (ow′ fīse) are widespread features of the arctic cryosphere. They form when river channels become locally restricted by ice, ...