The push to reduce black carbon, which studies have shown has a warming impact 1,600 times that of carbon dioxide over a ...

At the same time, parts of the north-eastern Atlantic including the Norwegian Sea — stretching from Norway to the tips of Iceland and Greenland — as well as the area towards Scotland, had recorded the ...

The Arctic is not just getting warmer. It is starting to behave in new manners in ways that are dangerous for nature. For ...

Decades of advances in satellite observation made it seem as though Arctic snow cover was growing, when in reality satellites ...

There's a confounding dilemma for many folks trying to make sense of winter weather in the context of climate change.

Purposefully sinking boreal trees could help lock away carbon for millennia or longer, but the audacious plan comes with ...

Polar bears need ice for their long term survival as less or shrinking ice forces these creatures to travel long distances in ...

A warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The “wobble” can disrupt the jet stream, ...

Across the Northern Hemisphere, familiar seasons are starting to feel unfamiliar. Heat waves linger, cold snaps arrive out of sync, and storms stall over the same unlucky regions. At the heart of this ...

An Arctic farming experiment reveals that carbon losses from peat soils are not fixed, but highly sensitive to how water is ...

Arctic sea ice has large effects on the global climate. By cooling the planet, Arctic ice impacts ocean circulation, ...

For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy ...