Arctic ice pack

Tromsø Norway aerial

Norway’s vanishing winter

Climate Change

Scandinavia is nearly synonymous with cold and snow, but a recent study from Norway shows that’s beginning to change.

A red helicopter is shown landed on the Greenland ice sheet with team of three professors and three students unload their gear.

PHOTOS: Up close and personal with Greenland’s massive ice sheet

The Big Melt
Three people walk across ground covered in ice and snow as the horizon stretches behind them.

As Greenland’s ice sheet melts, scientists push to learn ‘how fast’

The Big Melt
sea ice

Ice is us: Alaska Natives face the demise of the Arctic ice pack

The Big Melt
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