ON the shore of Lake Tiktalik in Canada’s Western Arctic, the thawing permafrost has triggered massive landslides into the ...

Genebanks - items that preserve and store genetic material, such as seeds, tissues, or DNA samples - are sent from all over the world to Svalbard in a bid to keep native - and sometimes ancient - crop ...

For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the case no more, according to an annual report issued on Tuesday by the ...

In November, a student-led project made a disturbing discovery : Mesyatsev Island, a floating slab of ice previously observed ...

Tree planting has been championed globally as a cost-effective strategy to mitigate climate change. Trees are celebrated for ...

Because of a complex mechanism known as “Arctic amplification,” Alaska is warming two to three times faster than the world as ...

The Arctic tundra has tipped over into a source of atmospheric carbon, with the region now emitting more carbon dioxide than ...

Arctic Report Card, released Dec. 10, we brought together 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, to report on the state of the Arctic ...

The region is warming much faster than the rest of the planet and releasing carbon from its thawing soil. Umair Irfan of Vox ...

The last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a number of new milestones in ...

New research uncovers Arctic Siberia’s dramatic summer warming during the Last Interglacial, transforming ecosystems ...