Arctic communities face a wide variety of upheavals, from short-term shocks to long-term trends and slow-burn issues such as ...

Utilizing one of the longest-running ecosystem experiments in the Arctic, researchers have developed a better understanding of the interplay among plants, microbes and soil nutrients -- findings that ...

As the Arctic warms at an unprecedented rate, frozen soils that have remained locked in ice for most of the year are now ...

In 2026, the Arctic winter sea-ice extent (annual maximum extent ,note 1) reached the lowest value since satellite ...

Special features of the Arctic climate, such as the strong reflection of the sun's rays off the light snow or the low position of the sun, amplify global warming in the Arctic. However, researchers ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant communities in the Arctic, with species flourishing in some areas and declining in others, according to a new study in Nature. The decades-long investigation, ...

NOAA scientists have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S. government science itself faces an uncertain future. Arctic cotton grass grows in marshy terrain near the Ilulissat Icefjord ...

New research shows the Arctic tundra has shifted from storing carbon to releasing it, compounding human-caused emissions, while New York Governor Kathy Hochul is moving to weaken the state’s landmark ...

ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low fat, low ice diet because of ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...