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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land and altering ancient reindeer ...

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Moonshot proposals to save the planet’s ice sheets—including giant underwater sea curtains and refreezing Arctic ice—are gaining popularity as the planet heats up.

Moonshot proposals to save the planet’s ice sheets, including giant underwater sea curtains and refreezing Arctic ice, are gaining popularity as the planet heats up. But none of ...

Ozone layer depletion in Antarctica has increased this year to 20 million square kilometres. Even though it is within the normal range, it still holds the concern.