The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

Caribou, migrating birds and many other types of wildlife rely on this expanse of wetlands and tundra. Humanity and the ...

Despite falling global mercury emissions, mercury levels in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A new study reveals that ocean currents are delivering legacy mercury pollution from distant regions ...

Researchers warn that accelerating human-driven loss of microbial diversity threatens both planetary and human health. The ...

The Arctic is warming four times faster than any other place on the planet. As sea ice melts, new shipping routes between continents are opening up, and the yearly window for navigating through ...

The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to highlight the importance of glaciers and ensure that those ...

Had cockroaches not been able to survive for the past 300 million years, Earth would not be as healthy as it is today.

From AI camera traps to techno-tortoises, see how cutting-edge technology is revolutionizing wildlife conservation.

The CETB data set is hosted and distributed through NASA’s NSIDC Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).

The Arctic is losing ice—fast. To better predict the future, scientists headed to the North’s last bastion of multiyear sea ice.

Plastic waste is a growing issue worldwide. According to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) a truck load of plastic ...

2-million-year-old DNA reveals a lost Arctic ... fully integrated ecosystem—one that existed and developed during an era when ... The presence of reindeer and mastodon, big animals that ...