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New temperature maps for the endless stretches of Russian Arctic lands bear witness of unprecedented warming.

Melting permafrost, land erosion, and heavy rains are causing these villages to flood and sink

It was a remarkably cold winter across the high Arctic, at least compared to the abnormally mild winters in many recent years, but the weather pattern has reversed this spring.

Winters are getting shorter and summers are getting longer, a new comparison shows. In most regions of the U.S. and Canada, summer is about 6-10% longer and winter is about 7-11% shorter. In Alaska, winters are about 30% shorter than they were just a lifetime ago.

Biologists have to figure out how to monitor salmon populations in rural communities without the danger of bringing the coronavirus into those communities.

Soil organic carbon (SOC) stored in permafrost across the high-latitude/altitude Northern Hemisphere represents an important potential carbon source under future warming. Here, we provide a comprehensive investigation on the spatiotemporal dynamics of SOC over the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau (TP), which has received less attention compared with the circum-Arctic region. The permafrost region covers ~42% of the entire TP and contains ~37.21 Pg perennially frozen SOC at the baseline period (2006–2015). With continuous warming, the active layer is projected to further deepen, resulting in ~1.86 ± 0.49 Pg and ~3.80 ± 0.76 Pg permafrost carbon thawing by 2100 under moderate and high representative concentration pathways (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5), respectively. This could largely offset the regional carbon sink and even potentially turn the region into a net carbon source. Our findings also highlight the importance of deep permafrost thawing that is generally ignored in current Earth system models.

Unhealthful air quality is plaguing the region.

A new scientific study published Monday found that global warming is fueling a destructive algal bloom that is disrupting fisheries in the Arabian sea.

How the beavers got to the Baldwin Peninsula, which is surrounded by salt water and extends north of the Arctic Circle, is anyone’s guess.

Sightings of the Asian giant hornet have prompted fears that the vicious insect could establish itself in the United States and devastate bee populations.

Feather, fur or fin, all creatures contend with viruses.

Even those athletes of our rivers, Atlantic salmon, usually aren’t as healthy as they look.

A study of tissue samples taken from 150 Atlantic salmon found 14 separate infectious

An Oregon State University researcher is using whale poop to ultimately help protect them.

Scientists found out that amid climate change in the summer, drifting ice goes further north, and the coastal area is freed from ice for a longer period.

Changes are coming to the Arctic so fast that scientists haven't even had a chance to understand what's there

Alaskans can help the National Weather Service monitor rivers during a potentially dangerous breakup this year through a University of Alaska Fairbanks citizen science project.

CLIMATE change can be fought by releasing herds of large animals into the Arctic, researchers have bizarrely found.

Scientists have documented a recent population explosion of beavers on the Baldwin Peninsula near Kotzebue.

With enough animals, 80% of all permafrost could be preserved through the end of this century, researchers believe.

The Arctic possesses frozen pathogens from past contagions, raising fears that climate change could unleash them as melting permafrost reveals the corpses of their victims.

The grazing crisis in reindeer herding, the corona situation and the work on the Norwegian-Swedish Reindeer Grazing Convention was the theme of the meeting between Minister of Agriculture and Food Olaug Vervik Bollestad (KrF) and Sami Parliament President Aili Keskitalo.