In an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study, an international team examined the social risks for Arctic regions associated with thawing permafrost. They identified five key risks related to ...

Across much of the world, planting more trees means more carbon is stored, and global warming is reduced. That’s the thinking ...

A new study of the rapidly warming Arctic-boreal region identifies "hotspot" ecosystems experiencing some of the fastest and ...

Lawmakers have called for pushback on China's presence in the Arctic, with diplomats say they are sharing more information and intelligence with Allied nations.

For decades, the Arctic has steadily been losing sea ice, causing some climatologists to guess that the first month of an ice ...

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

As the Arctic’s permafrost thaws, deadly microbes are being released, causing problems for humans and animals.

In the Arctic, the old, multiyear ice is increasingly melting, dramatically reducing the frequency and size of pressure ...