A seemingly minor trickle of groundwater beneath Alaska’s tundra is quietly releasing vast amounts of carbon into the ocean.

The world is adept at balancing the warming gases in its atmosphere, but anthropogenic climate change is challenging this ...

By Liz Kimbrough The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to ...

When two schoolteachers living in Point Lay, Alaska, decided to try heading home in a blizzard, they nearly loose their way and wander onto the frozen Arctic Ocean.

Nuuk Greenland - The road south from Greenlands capital Nuuk runs out at the tip of a blizzard-scoured peninsula stretching ...

Carbon in the ocean can lead to higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the air, which contributes to climate change. The ...

Sparsely populated and largely impassable, areas within the Arctic Circle are nevertheless becoming one of the most important ...

The treeless tundra that rings the Arctic Ocean covers an area nearly twice the size of Alaska. This region has historically served as Earth’s freezer. Its permanently frozen ground, called ...

The Sheer Beauty of Glaciers Imagine a vast expanse of ice stretching out as far as the eye can see. This is the sight that ...

After almost three weeks of dry weather, a big change to wet/cool weather arrives this coming weekend. But what about lowland ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...