Rapid warming has impacted the northern ecosystem so significantly that scientists are concerned the region's vegetation is ...

This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to ...

The findings, published Friday in Nature Geoscience, based on a meticulous analysis of Landsat images from 1986 to 2021, show ...

Disturbances like wildfires, drought, and deforestation have diminished the resilience of many plant communities.

Rapid warming has impacted the northern ecosystem so significantly that scientists are concerned the region's vegetation is ...

but it could also be altered in the future with new vegetation coming in.” In the Arctic, vegetation is expanding on a scale that affects the albedo, or the overall reflectivity of the region ...

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s ...

Permafrost is perennially frozen soil that covers about a quarter of the land in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in Canada, Russia and Alaska. Much of it is rich with the organic matter of ...

“The Siberian primrose is a good example of a species threatened by rapidly advancing climate change. It cannot migrate to ...

As my ship slows to stillness here in the middle of the Iceland Sea, somewhere very north of the Arctic Circle and hundreds ...