MOSCOW  - Russia has ordered the urgent evacuation of the 16-strong crew of a drifting Arctic research station after ice floe that hosts the floating laboratory began to disintegrate, officials said Thursday.Natural Resources and Ecology Minister Sergei Donskoi set a three-day deadline to ...

      The Arctic, which is melting and thereby creating new shipping routes and access to minerals, poses a foreign policy challenge for the United States and other nations - particularly in the warmer months when once-impassable seas become open. But it’s easy to put off dealing with it. The ...

  OSLO   Scientists expressed alarm on Monday over the rapid acidification of theArctic Oceancaused by carbon dioxide emissions, which could have dire consequences on the region’s fragile ecosystem. Acidity levels in the planet’s oceans have risen by 30 percent since the start ...

GENEVA - AFP - The Arctic’s sea ice melted at a record pace in 2012, the ninth-hottest year on record, compounding concerns about climate change underscored by extreme weather such as Hurricane Sandy, the UN weather agency said Thursday.In a report on the situation in 2012, the World ...

GENEVA  - Extreme temperatures, drought, floods and the unprecedented loss of Arctic ice marked global weather in 2012, boosting concern at the march of climate change, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said Wednesday.“Climate change is taking place before our eyes and will ...

The Obama administration is set to announce that it is suspending proposed exploratory drilling in the Arctic Ocean until 2011. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says in a report to be delivered to the White House later today that he will not consider applications for permits to drill in the Arctic ...

Representatives of the five countries bordering the Arctic Ocean meet in Greenland on Wednesday to discuss the impact of climate change on the icy region -- and how to divide up its as-yet untapped rich resources.  The summit is the first to be held at the ministerial level between the five ...

NASA scientists readied for the landing of the 420-million-dollar Phoenix spacecraft near Mar's frigid north pole. Phoenix will enter the Martian atmosphere at around 2331 GMT Sunday at about 21,000 kilometers (13,000 miles) per hour and rely on its thermal shield, then a parachute followed by a ...