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

and the wettest summer on record. For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ...

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 Arctic Report Card covers October through September each year, and 2024 was the second-warmest year on record for the ...

The Arctic of today looks stunningly different from the Arctic of even one to two decades ago. Over the Arctic Report Card’s ...

For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the ...

The news that the frigid Arctic tundra ringing the polar region has switched from being a net absorber, or "sink," of ...

From giant holes in Siberia to legions of beavers in Alaska, the Arctic is changing rapidly and accelerating the climate ...

According to the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s 2024 Arctic Report Card, tundra in ...

The amount of atmospheric carbon absorbed by the Arctic’s tundra region in the summer is now outpaced by the amount of carbon dioxide emitted through permafrost warming and thaw, wildfires and ...

Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the Arctic region to release more carbon dioxide and methane than its plants ...