Researchers conclude largest Arctic expedition 03:25. It's been happening for several years now, especially in the autumn, but it never ceases to unsettle meteorologists like myself: Temperatures ...

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

“If you recognize that the Arctic really is the gateway to climate change, and that we need some means of taking a regular pulse check on how things are in that critical area, the report card ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

Observations from researchers and residents, published annually in a report by NOAA, reveal a region grappling with rapid change. By Delger Erdenesanaa This summer was the Arctic’s warmest on ...

I first learned of the Arctic Council, which was established in 1996, while serving on a 2011 expert panel convened by the U.S. National Research Council assessing the impact of climate change on ...

The thawing of the permafrost not only changes the face of the Arctic, it also has an impact on Earth's climate. ... CC BY 4.0 de Vrese et al. Nature Climate Change 13, ...

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 ...

But the report, by 82 authors in 13 countries, makes clear that the Arctic continues to change, with the past 17 years accounting for the 17 smallest annual minimum sea ice covers in the 45-year ...

When we talk about climate change, my sons ask: “Are you worried, Mom?” They’ve heard countless media interviewers ask me this over the years. It’s a very good question.

Aerial photography from the 1950s showed no beaver ponds at all in Arctic Alaska. But in a recent study, Ken Tape, an ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, scanned satellite images of ...