Hidden within Arctic ice, diatoms are proving to be anything but dormant. New Stanford research shows these glass-walled ...

Beachgoers in Ostend, Belgium, saw a young hooded seal thousands of miles from its home — a worrisome sign of Arctic climate ...

Geochemical reactions from thawing permafrost are leaching toxic metals into rivers throughout the Brooks Range in northern ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is.

If you pull an ice core from the outer edges of the Arctic polar cap, you might spot what looks like a faint line of dirt. Those are diatoms—single-celled algae with outer walls made of glass. Their ...

But with the Arctic warming four times as fast as the rest of the globe, and fires now routinely burning large swaths of northern forests, that locked-up carbon is rapidly escaping into the atmosphere ...

As climate change drives earlier spring conditions in the Arctic, bird species that travel there to breed there are under ...

Warming soil unleashes metals deadly to fish and food chains. In Alaska’s Brooks Range, rivers once clear enough to drink ...

I will never forget the moment, on a cruise excursion in Iceland in 2024, when a pair of humpback whales appeared next to our ...

With the fall hunting season underway in Alaska, the Alaska Zoo has issued a request that could benefit its meat-eating residents. “Calling all hunters! We will gratefully accept carcasses for zoo ...

Chad Wilson, a wildlife biologist from the Utah Department of Wildlife Services, provides insights about the largest bear in ...