The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The public is not getting much information about the threat of Arctic methane. Huge amounts of methane ...

The Arctic is predicted to warm faster than anywhere else in the world this century, perhaps by as much as 7°C. These rising temperatures threaten one of the largest long-term stores of carbon on land ...

Far north in the Fram Strait, scientists from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, working with colleagues including the University of Southampton in the U.K., have identified the deepest known gas ...

Researchers found that only part of the microbial community in thawing Arctic soils becomes active, suggesting greenhouse gas ...

Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane stores were disrupted by climate change after the last glacial maximum – and ...

Methane is a key greenhouse gas; the Arctic is a key region for natural emissions of methane; high summer and autumn are key periods when emissions can peak and change rapidly. Understanding the ...

Spread the loveIntroduction A recent breakthrough study published in Nature has sent shockwaves through the scientific community and the public at large. This landmark research reveals that climate ...

A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over ...