By W. M. Akers EMPIRE OF ICE AND STONE: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk, by Buddy Levy In 1913, the Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, became trapped in the Arctic ice.

McConnell is quoted late in Buddy Levy’s “Empire of Ice and Stone,” a gripping new account of the last famous great disaster during the age of Arctic exploration. Levy relies heavily on the ...

But according to a new study, the answer could actually lie in the Arctic. Scientists have warned that melting ice at the North ... been frozen since the Middle Stone Age, this virus was still ...

gathered Arctic plants, and built houses from ice, stone, and animal skins. This already challenging research is becoming increasingly difficult. The Arctic is warming up to four times faster ...

Summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean might be a thing of the past by the 2030s, no matter what we do to curb emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, an international study ...

Over the past several decades, the Arctic has warmed four times faster than the rest of the world, a 2022 study showed. There has already been a rapid loss of sea ice in the region, with September ...

The Arctic could be "ice-free" in just a few years, scientists have found. Here's what that means. The region, which sits at the northernmost point of the globe, is a unique ecosystem ...

Last month was extreme: Temperatures in parts of the Arctic spiked 36 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20 Celsius, above normal. By the end of the month, sea ice was at its lowest level ever recorded for ...

Shaun Fitzgerald currently receives funding from NERC on a project which includes modelling of Rethickening of Arctic Sea Ice. Shaun will also shortly be receiving funding from ARIA on a further ...

Newsweek reported on China's growing ambitions in the Arctic - and the stone lions from Shanghai - last July. The request also affects a gold-colored plaque with the name "Yellow River Station" in ...