Sea ice loss seems to have triggered a decline in the nutrient nitrate, affecting the tiny organisms that form the ...

The Arctic, long regarded as a mythical realm, is rapidly changing due to climate change. Kenneth R. Rosen's 'Polar War' ...

A potentially explosive political tussle is playing out on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. And some fear the ...

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, ...

The advisories cover portions of some of the coldest inhabited regions of the United States.

The Arctic is heating up particularly fast as a result of global warming—with serious consequences. The widespread permafrost in this region, where soils currently store twice as much carbon as the ...

The Arctic is in the hotseat of climate change, warming four times faster than anywhere else on Earth. Already, the Arctic Ocean has experienced immense change. Sea ice which once covered a vast ...

In 1957, Hollywood released The Deadly Mantis, a B-grade monster movie starring a praying mantis of nightmare proportions. Its premise: Melting Arctic ice has released a very hungry, million-year-old ...

Arctic permafrost preserves ancient landscapes and extinct life for thousands of years. Rising global temperatures are ...