The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, yet the changes underway in the Arctic as temperatures rise can profoundly affect lives around the world.
New research has looked at how the ice sheet has grown and shrunk over its long history, and it has warned that things don't ...
The concept was quickly embraced by scientists trying to raise the alarm about global warming. “We are on the precipice of ...
For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the ...
Rising temperatures, increasing precipitation, thawing permafrost and melting ice are pushing the Arctic outside its ...
The Arctic is now a carbon source, instead of a carbon sink, according to a new report released by NOAA. Warming temperatures ...
Antarctica, a continent 98 percent covered by a polar ice cap, holds dormant volcanoes. According to scientists, ongoing ...
Arctic Report Card, 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, describe the rapid changes they’re witnessing across the Arctic and the ...
Rising temperatures, increasing precipitation, thawing permafrost and melting ice are pushing the Arctic outside its ...
NOAA released its annual Arctic Report Card today. Notably, this year gave evidence the Arctic was a net carbon source rather ...
A research study led by Marc Oliva, researcher at the University of Barcelona, analyzes the evolution of glaciers on the Hurd ...
The authors of this year’s Arctic Report Card said the consistently extreme climate observations in the Arctic indicate a ...