Arctic tundra is releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as hotter temperatures melt frozen ground and wildfires ...

The Arctic is home to pristine artifacts. A few archeologists are rushing to find them, and the critical clues they can offer ...

Arctic seals are doing okay. Caribou, not so much Ice seal populations remain healthy despite warming water and declining sea ice. Seals seem to be adapting to the changing climate by eating more ...

Future infrastructure projects, like a deep sea port in the western Arctic, will add to the impact of increased vessel ...

The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren’t one of the 4 million people who live ...

Fires, intensified by climate change, release carbon trapped in soil and plants. More frequent infernos have now transformed ...

Wildlife populations are affected too, the new report notes — although not always in the same ways. Ice seal populations ...

Arctic Report Card, released Dec. 10, we brought together 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, to report on the state of the Arctic ...

Killer whales are expanding their territory and have moved into Arctic waters as climate change melts sea ice, with two ...

The Arctic of today looks stunningly different from the Arctic of even one to two decades ago. Over the Arctic Report Card’s ...

Rapid Arctic warming also affects wildlife in different ways. As Lori Quakenbush and colleagues explain in this year’s report, Alaska ice seal populations, including ringed, bearded, spotted and ...