It is shocking that 2C is plausible,” said Adam Scaife of Britain’s Met Office, echoing a view now shared throughout the climate science community. For three decades, predictions of this kind of ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the sea ice on a ...

The Arctic is warming much faster than other parts of the world, profoundly affecting the indigenous populations, including with a decline in Chinook salmon.

The CHARCOT project brought together scientists of seven nationalities from 11 universities and institutes, leading six missions in fields such as the carbon cycle, Arctic Ocean physics and ...

The Arctic’s frozen ground has long kept its secrets locked away beneath layers of ice and snow. But as researchers dive deeper into the complex workings of this remote landscape, they’re uncovering ...

sunlight-absorbing ocean, or when precipitation falls as rain rather than snow. Now scientists can add the Arctic tundra to that list. In most ecosystems, plants absorb carbon dioxide from the ...

As the Arctic loses snow cover and sea ice, more dark-colored ocean water and rock emerge ... includes a detailed accounting of how the carbon cycle is changing in the Arctic.

This creates a vicious cycle where the Arctic, once a natural "refrigerator ... While an ice-free Arctic Ocean may be closer than we think, there is still hope. As scientists stress, any reduction in ...

This is especially true in the Arctic Ocean, where geographic and climatic factors contribute to a particularly complex nitrogen cycle. Arrigo et al. review current knowledge of how nitrogen ...