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 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 ...

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 ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...