The 2024 Arctic report card is in, and the grade isn’t good. A new report just released by NOAA shows a rapidly melting Arctic has transitioned from a carbon sink to a carbon source. “Our observations ...

Planting trees on 6.4 million hectares of northern taiga forest could remove 3.9 gigatons of CO2 by 2100 — five times ...

The 10 hottest years on record have all occurred within the past decade, with 2024 likely to be the warmest yet. But the Arctic has warmed up at a faster rate than the planet as a whole during that ...

Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands of years, has now become a source of carbon dioxide. The new research, led by scientists at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, ...

Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands of years, has now become a source of planet-warming pollution. As wildfires increase and hotter temperatures melt long-frozen ground, the region is ...

Foreboding environmental milestones abounded again this year in the Arctic, where experts say dramatic climate shifts are fundamentally altering the ecosystem and how it operates. One recent turning ...

Snowy owls that once glided across wide open spaces of the Arctic tundra are seeing their homes shrink under thickening ...

Authors: Twila A. Moon, University of Colorado Boulder; Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder, and Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks The Arctic can feel like a far-off ...

Former chief of defence staff Tom Lawson argues that decades of Arctic sovereignty rhetoric without adequate investment have left Canada vulnerable, as melting ice opens new shipping routes and other ...