The Arctic is not just warming - it is unraveling. " What makes this so alarming is that these feedback loops don't operate ...
The Earth contains two frosty, cold ends: the northern Arctic Circle — more commonly known as the “North Pole” and home to the beloved Santa Claus — and the opposite, southern continent of Antarctica.
Hundreds of Arctic rivers and streams are turning bright red-orange, not from chemical pollution, but from naturally occurring iron spilling from long-frozen ground as temperatures warm. The "rusting ...
Editor’s note: This is a first-person account of ongoing research. “Last year we had no snow here,” the hotel desk clerk in Anchorage said. That got my attention, because this is Alaska, after all. We ...
For decades, ECCC research scientists have been integral to the work of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme.
As temperatures rise, reindeer face a growing struggle to reach the lichen they depend on. More frequent and intense droughts, storms and heat waves, melting glaciers, warming oceans and rising sea ...
VARDØ – VARDØIn one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the seabirds that are part of Norway's unique coastal ecosystem.
HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES -- The documentary "Haulout" follows a marine biologist living in the Siberian Arctic. He's there to chronicle the largest walrus haulout in the world. That's where almost ...