Arctic temperatures spiked 36 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20 Celsius, above normal. By the end of the month, sea ice was at its ...

A study led by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has used a novel approach to unravel the ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

Arctic kelp absorbs metals from melting glaciers, increasing mercury levels by 72%. This could harm marine life and fisheries ...

Some theories suggest that this “Arctic greening” will help counteract climate change. The idea is that since plants take up carbon dioxide as they grow, rising temperatures will mean Arctic ...

One of these remarkable places is the Arctic Coastal Plain. Whale bone pile, Wainwright, Alaska. Over a decade ago, our ...

Fossil evidence reveals that palm trees once thrived in the Canadian Arctic, challenging everything we know about Earth's ...

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet and recent modeling has shown that many Arctic plants may lose all their suitable habitat as soon as 2040. “Climate change poses an ...

An arctic front swept across the U.S., dropping temperatures and bringing sleet and snow as far south as South Texas, likely destroying a few plants and vegetation. To aid in bringing life back to ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation ... is the extent to which Arctic wildfires will increase in ...

where cushion plants still play a pivotal role today? In today's Arctic, this supportive quality could actually threaten their own survival. "Since the warming of the Arctic has already progressed ...