As it approaches its yearly minimum, Arctic sea ice extent is...
Arctic sea ice usually reaches its lowest extent for the year in September, and this year, it appears increasingly likely that impending will be...
Scientists scramble to harvest ice cores as glaciers melt
Scientists are racing to collect ice cores — along with long-frozen records they hold of climate cycles — as global warming melts glaciers and...
US, Canada conduct a joint Arctic search-and-rescue exercise in Nunavut
The U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian forces conducted a joint Arctic search-and-rescue exercise in the Arctic on Monday.
The Canadian Coast Guard and Canadian Rangers...
World’s largest plant capturing carbon from air starts in Iceland
COPENHAGEN — The world's largest plant that sucks carbon dioxide directly from the air and deposits it underground was due to start operating on...
In a surprising shakeup, Biden ousts some Trump-appointed Arctic research commissioners
The White House on Thursday asked for the resignation of four appointees to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.
The move is unprecedented in the commission’s...
A new Indigenous-led study documents how ice loss is changing seal...
A decline in sea ice coverage has drastically reduced the amount of time that Inupiat residents of northwestern Alaska can hunt bearded seals, forcing...
The Arctic’s most populous mammal is still a puzzle for researchers
Zoologist and researcher Dominique Fauteux was out on the tundra outside of Salluit earlier this summer when he noticed a least six couples of...
How Arctic warming triggers extreme cold waves like the Texas freeze
In February 2021, in the midst of rapidly warming global temperatures, an exceptionally severe cold wave hit large parts of North America, from Canada...
Rapid global warming 55 million years ago in Greenland shows what...
Frozen northeast Greenland seems an unlikely place to gain insight into our ever-warming world. Between 50 million and 60 million years ago, however, the...
Swiss-Danish expedition finds the world’s northernmost island
We were a team of five from the Leister Expedition Around North Greenland 2021, a Swiss-Danish scientific expedition, that landed on the island in...
