Polar bears, the iconic creatures of the Arctic, have a role that extends beyond their status as apex predators. They are vital contributors to the Arctic ecosystem, providing millions of kilograms of ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

The Arctic region is rapidly changing, and even the mud at the bottom of fjords is revealing how our warming planet is reshaping the Earth. Deep beneath icy Arctic waters, scientists have uncovered ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued its annual Arctic Report Card on Tuesday, which documents the way rising temperatures, diminished ice, thawing permafrost, melting glaciers ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 13: Climate action and SDG 14: Life below water. The Arctic ecosystem supports a remarkably rich and specialised biodiversity despite its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The study, from an international team of researchers who analyzed decades of data, declares that a "new era" of extreme weather ...

A specialized training program in northern Finland is preparing scientists to dive beneath frozen Arctic and Antarctic waters ...

The Arctic Report Card, supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is an annual, peer-reviewed ...

In a remote corner of Northern Norway, inside a dark coastal cave sealed off for millennia, scientists have opened a rare time capsule of life from 75,000 years ago. The bones and DNA traces of dozens ...

The findings are important because methane is over 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Arctic lakes are already major natural methane sources globally, but the processes ...

Extreme weather events have become significantly more common in the Arctic over recent decades, posing a threat to vital polar ecosystems, according to new research by an international team of ...