Because the ice is floating, the melting doesn't affect sea levels. Scientists have said that the last time the North Pole had this much water was 50 million years ago.

Billions of dollars worth of oil and metals could lay below the melting Arctic ice. ... For now, the North Pole – one of the most pristine places on Earth – belongs to everyone and no one.

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and least deep among the five great oceans in the world, and is about 14 million square ...

The huge ice floe, into which the platform had been frozen since October, 2022, has been melting rapidly ST. PETERSBURG, August 29. /TASS/. The North Pole unique ice-resistant self-propelled ...

The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, shows the shift happened in two phases: 1835–1954: Dams in North ...

The world's dams have quietly moved more than just water—their massive reservoirs have actually nudged Earth's poles by feet, according to new research that reveals how human engineering is subtly ...

As Earth's climate warms, more ice is melting near the poles. And that is a huge driver of sea level rise around the globe. But some coastal communities are threatened by this more than others ...