A study led by the EPFL suggests that shipping emissions influence climate-relevant cloud formation and may affect regional ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant communities in the Arctic, with species flourishing in some areas and declining in others, according to a new study in Nature. The decades-long investigation, ...

A Queen's-led team uncovers surprising ecological shifts in some of the North's largest and most remote lakes in John Smol's inaugural paper as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

From Siberia to Brazil, wildfires are moving underground and burning up massive carbon deposits. The resulting emissions threaten to worsen global warming. The Arctic tundra. The vast floodplains of ...

Three recent papers authored by Ted Schuur, Regents' professor of biological sciences at Northern Arizona University, and other researchers around the world, organized through the Permafrost Carbon ...

Melting icebergs are creating hidden arctic homes as disappearing glaciers reshape the deep ocean. Scientists found that ...

Arctic spring surface air temperature (SAT), as a critical climate indicator of spring climate change in the region, exhibits notable interannual variability amid rapid Arctic warming. However, the ...

The Arctic. A place where reindeer is on the menu and Russian submarines lurk, some of them wielding enough explosives for a blast many times larger than the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. The Arctic is ...

In 1957, Hollywood released The Deadly Mantis, a B-grade monster movie starring a praying mantis of nightmare proportions. Its premise: Melting Arctic ice has released a very hungry, million-year-old ...

Foreboding environmental milestones abounded again this year in the Arctic, where experts say dramatic climate shifts are fundamentally altering the ecosystem and how it operates. One recent turning ...