Foreboding environmental milestones abounded again this year in the Arctic, where experts say dramatic climate shifts are fundamentally altering the ecosystem and how it operates. One recent ...
Moon receives funding from NOAA for work performed as an editor on the Arctic Report Card. Matthew L. Druckenmiller receives funding from NOAA for work performed as an editor on the Arctic Report ...
For millennia, the Arctic tundra has helped stabilize global temperatures by storing carbon in the frozen ground. Wildfires have changed that, according to the latest Arctic Report Card released ...
The Arctic, once defined by its frozen, inhospitable climate and long winter nights, is experiencing dramatic transformations as the region warms almost four times faster than the global average.
Researchers are planning to refreeze the Arctic by thickening the ice. Credit: Official U.S. Navy Page / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Scientists have a new idea to stop the Arctic from melting. They want to ...
Canada is stepping up its Arctic strategy amid growing geopolitical tensions and the region’s transformation due to climate change. On Friday, Canada unveiled a 37-page security policy detailing ...
CLIMATEWIRE | The Arctic continued its relentless transformation in 2024, experiencing its wettest summer, its second warmest permafrost temperatures and its second hottest overall year on record.
Mr. Waterman is the author of “Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis.” Flames were leaping out of the forest beneath the float plane taking us deep into the remote ...
"We're talking about a big, big cool down, to say the least, especially for places up and down the East Coast as we head into really the first few weeks of January," FOX Weather Meteorologist ...
By Raymond Zhong For thousands of years, the shrubs, sedges, mosses and lichens of the Arctic have performed a vital task for the planet: gulping down carbon dioxide from the air and storing the ...
Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands of years, has now become a source of planet-warming pollution. As wildfires increase and hotter temperatures melt long-frozen ground, the ...
A team of scientists, led by a climate expert from the University of Lincoln, U.K., says that continued rapid warming in the Arctic may be linked to severe cold-air outbreaks in the U.K. and ...