Global warming does not affect our planet evenly. Some areas such as the Arctic region or high mountain peaks warm faster ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but ...

Ground slumping in yedoma permafrost after a wildfire, in the interior of Alaska. Yedoma permafrost generally contains large ...

In a new study using historical data and sophisticated computer models of Earth’s climate and hydrology, we explored how climate change is altering Arctic rivers. Major river basins of the ...

From extreme melt events to an influx of beaver colonies in Alaska, and rain falling at the summit of Greenland for the first time on record, the Arctic region showed clear symptoms of an ailing ...

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, found that over the course of just 20 years, lakes across the pan-Arctic region – the northern parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, Scandinavia and ...

As the Arctic reacts to the planet-warming gases that humans have pumped into the atmosphere, the region is swiftly transforming and entering what scientists call a “new regime.” ...

On June 20, 2020, the temperature in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk reached 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit. It was a record for the Arctic region but more than that, scientists say, it was a wake-up ...

In the chilly Arctic, a long-frozen region is a critical refuge for wildlife that depends on ice. But the so-called Last Ice Area could melt away as Earth warms.