Paddling across more than three miles of frigid open water in specially designed canoes packed with 350 pounds of supplies, Minnesota explorers, Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen, left a remote region of Siberia to begin the first ever unsupported...

Three leading conservation groups filed a lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) today, to protect the world’s polar bears from extinction as a result of the disappearing Arctic sea ice that they depend on for hunting, mating and travel.

Survival of the world's remaining polar bears is increasingly jeopardized by the rapid disappearance of the arctic sea ice on which they depend for hunting, mating and migration, according to three leading conservation groups that today announced...

Harrowing conditions, including unusual snow storms and spring ice conditions, have cut short two U.S. explorers attempt at the first summer crossing of the Arctic Ocean to highlight the dangers of global warming. Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen...

A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled yesterday against the Bush Administration and allowed a groundbreaking global warming lawsuit to proceed. The landmark decision is the first time that a...