A new “cold rush” is mining northern mineral riches. Canada’s Giant Mine serves as a warning of the high and long-term cost of such expeditions.

Rising temperatures could cause huge amounts of toxic materials to seep out of sealed-off mines into waterways ...

Major exports include diamonds and coal. Because of its intensely subarctic climate, tourism plays a smaller role in contributing to the local economy. But the city still attracts adventurous ...

Sapporo is the capital city of Hokkaido and the fifth-largest city in the country ... Located in the subarctic zone, Hokkaido is no stranger to cold snowy winters. Winds hailing from Siberia ...

Standing in thick snowfall by the frozen river that bisects Skelleftea, a visitor might easily miss the 20-story timber high-rise that, in clearer weather, looms over this small mining town on the ...

A team of leading oceanographers recently reviewed current research analyzing the waters that flow between the Arctic and subarctic oceans ... is predicted to be the largest heat source of the ...

Figure 2: Ecosystem respiration rates and their heterotrophic and plant-related components in a subarctic bog subjected to experimental warming or ambient conditions. Figure 3: Isotopic signatures ...