Yet, the changes underway in the Arctic as temperatures rise can profoundly affect lives around the world. Arctic tundra now ...

The last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a number of new milestones in ...

Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the Arctic region to release more carbon dioxide and methane than its plants ...

You’ll get quite a buzz landing on one of the world’s most northern commercial runways Take in the untamed Arctic beauty from ...

Another 'drill, baby, drill' Trump administration promises to turn up the heat in fast-warming, methane-emitting Alaska.

The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, yet the changes underway in the Arctic as temperatures rise can profoundly affect lives around the world.

Scientists predict the most spectacular aurora displays in years—here’s where to catch them, from Alaska’s secret spots to ...

This is yet one more sign, predicted by scientists, of the consequences of inadequately reducing fossil fuel pollution,” said ...

For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the ...

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

Snow Pit Measurements, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set presents snow pit measurements ...

Rising temperatures, increasing precipitation, thawing permafrost and melting ice are pushing the Arctic outside its ...