The Svalbard Global Seed Vault celebrates its first decade in operation by accepting its millionth sample—and a grant for work to keep those samples safe despite melting permafrost.

Without ice to provide protection from storm waves, Port Heiden has lost the old town road.

For the community of Jean Lafitte, the question is less whether it will succumb to the sea than when — and how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life.

When there's no snow, there's no need for their winter whites.

The world’s permafrost holds vast stores of carbon. What happens when it thaws?

The area around Öræfajökull glacier continues to show increased activity as the largest earthquake detected in the area, M3,6 on the Richter scale, occurred there this morning.

New research shows that permafrost soils hold massive quantities of mercury — nearly twice as much as is held in all other soils in the world, plus the mercury in the oceans and the atmosphere —

Leaning utility poles in south Anchorage

A large retail and office building in downtown Whitehorse has shifted so much in just a few years that its elevator is now out of service.

This is not the first time this village has faced the threat of erosion and flooding, but relocating won’t be as easy as it was last time.

Just what exactly is permafrost? And what is happening now that it's warming up? To find out, we enter the Arctic Circle's secret world of ice and frozen history.

Earthquake in low-probability area in Alaska

The weather was the warmest I’ve ever seen for this time of year and never seen insects like ladybugs out this time of year.

We will have more wacky weather in 2018 as the world continues to warm.

How will climate change affect health in Alaska? Dangerous travel conditions could cause more accidents, warmer temperatures could spread new diseases and the topsy-turvy weather could worsen mental health. Those are some conclusions from a new state report released Monday. Listen now

Extreme event attribution is one of the most rapidly expanding areas of climate science

A September storm caused damage in Utqiagvik, and Gov. Bill Walker declared a disaster there last month.

Countless human-made troubles in the Indonesian capital pose an imminent threat to the city’s survival. And it has to deal with mounting threats from climate change.

Melting permafrost and major storms are eating away at the coastal Alaskan village of Newtok. Residents are desperate to move, but the U.S. has no climate change policy that could help them.

In villages like Kongiganak, communities have stopped burying their dead because, as the permafrost melts, the oldest part of their cemetery is sinking.