The Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, has seen temperatures rise five times faster than the ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant life in the Arctic. A new study in Nature shows how one of the most fragile ecosystems ...

Lightning near the North Pole reveals dramatic climate changes as Arctic temperatures rise and storms intensify.

A new study has found worrying signs that climate change may be undermining the capacity of Arctic fjords to serve as ...

to tracking the effects of global climate change (cold-tolerant Polar organisms tend to be intolerant of ...

Scientists have discovered that cooling the planet by injecting sunlight-reflecting particles into the atmosphere could be ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.

PBI monitors polar bears across the Arctic partly to determine the impacts of climate change on the behavior and physical condition of the animals as well as population trends. One program has ...

The polar ice sheets are the key to climate tipping points—thresholds in Earth's systems that, when breached, lead to large and often irreversible environmental change. They have some of the ...

In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises ...