Beneath the Arctic’s frozen surface lies a hidden carbon reserve of nearly 63 billion tons. As rising temperatures thaw ancient permafrost,...

Vast carbon reserves lie hidden beneath farms, forests, and frozen Arctic soil. These underground stores, built over centuries, are now und...

Fossil evidence from the High Arctic reveals that palm trees and subtropical plants once thrived in the polar region. This occurred during ...

A new study warns that the Arctic Ocean could experience its first ice-free day as early as 2027, a dramatic consequence of accelerated ice...

The Arctic could see its first ice-free summer day by 2027. Scientists project ice-free periods lasting up to 71 days. Melting ice exposes ...

The study is published in peer-reviewed British journal Nature Communications and it was conducted by adjusting the models and scaling them...

The Arctic sea ice extent peaked at 14.88 million square kilometres on February 25 - earlier than usual - and was roughly 770,000 square ki...

In recent years, Arctic sea ice levels have been at their lowest since at least 1850 for the annual mean and in at least 1,000 years for la...

Even if the world were to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, winter temperatures in the Arctic would rise 3-5°C by 2050 and 5-...

New research shows a more direct link between certain extreme weather events and human-induced climate change and the role of planetary wav...

Extreme weather and climate conditions, including Arctic "heatwaves", have continued into 2017, after global temperatures set record last y...

Record ocean heat contributed to widespread coral reef bleaching, including in the Great Barrier Reef, which has seen up to 50 per cent of ...

The world witnessed the hottest year on record in 2016, surpassing the exceptionally high temperatures of 2015, the UN weather agency said,...

The El Nino event, which turned up the Earth's thermostat, has now disappeared, but "climate change, caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gas...

Researchers said that the behaviour is most likely an attempt by zooplankton to avoid predators hunting by moonlight.

Marine scientists warned on Thursday that our oceans are declining more rapidly than previously thought — becoming ever warmer and more aci...

The scientific staff at the North Pole-35 drifting station will celebrate Easter, said a source at the Arctic and Antarctic Scientific Rese...