Scientists hoped new forest growth would trap CO2 released by melting ice and permafrost due to global warming, but a new study shows it’s not enough because wildfires are reducing forest growth.
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Greenland’s massive ice sheets have been melting at an alarming rate for more than a decade. Scientists have now detected structural changes causing the ice itself to store meltwater less efficiently, further contributing to sea-level rise.
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The Arctic island is a battleground of the future as companies and nations vie to extract its massive deposits of the stuff needed to make F-35 fighter jets, electric cars and smartphones. In a crucial election, Greenlanders voted for a party opposed to the construction of a massive rare-earth mine.
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Lightning strikes inside the Arctic circle may double this century, sparking widespread tundra fires and increasing the risk of setting off the carbon time bomb held within permafrost, new research showed Monday.
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The ice sheet atop Greenland — which holds enough frozen water to swamp coastal cities worldwide — has melted to the ground at least once in the last million years despite CO2 levels far lower than today, stunned scientists have reported.
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Animals in the Arctic face an uncertain future as global warming drives catastrophic sea ice loss, forcing polar bears and narwhals to change essential eating habits in ways that increase their risk of starvation.
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Conservation groups say a large-scale oil drilling project on 1.2 million acres in Northern Alaska will exacerbate climate change and harm endangered species.
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Scientists’ discovery that fresh water, not salt water, once filled ice-covered sections of the Arctic could dramatically reshape our understanding of both ancient sea levels and climate change.
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A federal judge in Alaska Tuesday denied injunctive relief to environmental groups on the eve of a first-ever oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Norway’s Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a challenge from environmental groups trying to stop oil exploration in the Arctic, after a historic battle over the country’s climate change commitments.
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Scientists researching millennia-old environmental changes still affecting our world today say that the model predicts certain changes over the next three centuries.
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For 57,000 years, a wolf pup lay in her collapsed permafrost den in nearly pristine condition. Then climate change brought her out for all the world to see.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual report card on the Arctic made one thing clear: the Arctic of the past has melted away.
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This year’s vast wildfires in far northeastern Russia were linked to broader changes in a warming Arctic, according to a report Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday it would decline to delist the Arctic subspecies of ringed seals from the Endangered Species Act listing, citing a lack of evidence the creatures have recovered.
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Norway’s Supreme Court began examining Wednesday a case brought by two environmental groups seeking the cancellation of oil licenses granted by the Norwegian state in the Arctic.
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The extent of sea ice in the Arctic was at record lows for October, Danish researchers said Wednesday, adding the unusually warm season meant it was not recovering as fast as normal.
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An icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international effort to study the high Arctic has returned to its home port in Germany carrying a wealth of data that will help researchers better predict climate change in the decades to come.
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The biggest Arctic expedition in history will return to the German port of Bremerhaven on Monday after a yearlong mission, bringing home observations from scientists that sea ice is melting at a “dramatic rate” in the region.
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For all the recent talk of global warming, climate historians hunting for past temperature extremes have unearthed what the U.N. weather agency calls a new record low in the Northern Hemisphere — nearly -70 degrees Celsius (-93 F) was recorded almost three decades ago in Greenland.
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