The world is adept at balancing the warming gases in its atmosphere, but anthropogenic climate change is challenging this balance. A new study reports that 34 percent of the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ) ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

Continue reading to discover the animals that call the polar regions home. Lepus arcticus, commonly the arctic hare, is native to the most northern regions of North America. They are found principally ...

Researchers in a new study published in Nature Climate Change, have measured the flow of carbon in the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ) — consisting of the treeless tundra, boreal forests, and wetlands in ...

Even though his recent years’ work in Arctic Alaska has been focused on plants, he said encountering willows and other woody plants covering what used to be open tundra west of the Dalton ...

Giant cyclones of snow and ice are breaking up thin ice in the Arctic, leading to rapid ice loss events, and it’s happening more now than ever before. A scientist at OU described an unusually powerful ...

Nearby Pensacola, Florida saw similar snowfall. It's natural to look north to the cold Arctic for answers as to why the Gulf Coast took a polar bear plunge into such icy weather. As the name ...

We also have some ice on the Great Lakes which makes it easier for Arctic air to invade. RELATED: Winter Storm Update: 4 things changed overnight Here’s the forecast of the Polar Vortex lobe.