Topic: Arctic Ocean - CSMonitor.com

US unveils Arctic strategy, but is it keeping pace with other countries?

The National Strategy for the Arctic Region focuses on security, environment, and international cooperation. But with retreating sea ice creating opportunity as well as potential conflict, the US is seen as lagging.

Ancient Arctic was warm, wet, and green. What that says about the future.

With Arctic sea ice vulnerable, summer melt season begins briskly (+video)

Spread of Antarctic ice: no longer a global warming paradox?

Warming Arctic: Receding ice leaves Hudson Bay polar bears less time to eat

Shell halts Arctic oil drilling in 2013

On thin ice: As Arctic Ocean warms, a scramble to understand its weather

UN's focus on Middle East overlooks other urgent global matters

Going for the record: Can anything stop 2012 from being warmest ever?

Blocking patterns: How global warming might have worsened US drought

Putin on the birds: 'Only the weak ones didn't follow' me

Arctic sea ice falls to record low. Global warming?

Arctic ice to reach record lows, say scientists

Did the huge Greenland glacier break apart because of global warming? Maybe not. (+video)

What is subtropical plankton doing in Arctic waters?

Disintegrating Greenland glacier photographed from space (+video)

Arctic drilling: US setting policy to protect environment, indigenous people

Global warming's evil twin threatens West Coast fishing grounds

What killed the woolly mammoth? A whole bunch of things, say scientists. (+video)

Consumer Energy Report 'Race for the Arctic' exposes need for US to ratify UN treaty

Bizarre Arctic discovery baffles NASA scientists (+video)

Beneath Arctic ice, scientists find an ecosystem never imagined (+video)

New NASA discovery reveals mystery beneath Arctic ice (+video)

Gulf oil spill: Two years later, safety lessons ignored

President Algae? Obama not green enough, say environmentalists