In the Arctic, one of the primary paths for water to flow is along water tracks, stream-like features that fill with and ...

In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.

Thawing permafrost has released so much methane into Esieh Lake near Fairbanks, Alaska that the air above it is flammable. Credit: Katey Walter Anthony/ University of Alaska Fairbanks ...

The alarming rate at which planet earth is warming is playing havoc with the once pristine natural environments such as the ...

By day, he’s a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. And his CV shows no full-time newsroom job, though he ...

At current emission rates, we’re just over three years away from blowing through the remaining carbon budget to limit warming ...

A newly discovered 165-foot-deep crater in Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula highlights the increasing risks of Arctic methane explosions linked to thawing permafrost. These events release potent methane gas, ...

Alaska's shifting climate—from dinosaur-draped bayous to thawing permafrost, receding glaciers, and once-mythic sea ice—is a ...

With its melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, and floating sea ice that gets tougher to see from its northern shores each summer, Alaska is the poster state for global warming. Things ...

UN scientists have warned that the world is in “crunch time” to avoid higher levels of warming beyond the key threshold of ...

If you were to hike across the North Slope 75 million years ago, you would think you were in a Louisiana bayou, writes.

At ESA's Living Planet Symposium, scientists have unveiled how the combination of different long-term, high-resolution satellite datasets from ESA's Climate Change Initiative is shedding new light on ...