Snowy owls that once glided across wide open spaces of the Arctic tundra are seeing their homes shrink under thickening ...

For years, satellite data suggested that autumn snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere was actually increasing — a surprising twist in a warming world. But a new analysis reveals that this apparent ...

The push to reduce black carbon, which studies have shown has a warming impact 1,600 times that of carbon dioxide over a ...

The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, with average temperatures increasing by about 4°C in the last four ...

Climate change and the associated rising temperatures are melting more and more frozen ground in the Arctic. This dissolved matter contains large amounts of organic carbon which is flowing into the ...

Decades of advances in satellite observation made it seem as though Arctic snow cover was growing, when in reality satellites ...

A warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The “wobble” can disrupt the jet stream, ...

American history is a tale of mastering our physical environment or being mastered by it. We carved a canal through Panama to ...

Scientists claim that the Arctic soundscape is much more diverse than previously thought, and propose a change in how it ...

The Arctic last season was the hottest it has been in the past 125 years. The extent of sea ice during its usual maximum in March was the lowest in 47 years of satellite recordkeeping. The North ...

From left to right: Sean Cheng, Anuscheh Nawaz, Aircraft Commander Sarah Cozart and Jiaxu Zhang. A specialized plane, camera and a crew of four are in Alaska to understand the ecosystems of the Bering ...