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

The animal population that could decline 80 per cent by 2100 - New research suggests caribou will likely face population ...

A recent study presents an alternate take on when the Arctic could see individual instances of ice-free days, with models ...

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Survival of the fittest’-if making it through each day feels like an epic challenge, some animals perform these harsh ...

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 ...

For the first time, researchers report that Arctic algae can hustle along in -15 C – the lowest-temperature movement ever ...

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 ...

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

An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ...

Animals are finding paths blocked by roads, homes, oil wells. Butterflies are fading from forests. Giant fish are running into dams, as ancient routes are disrupted.