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There is a moment each year when the Arctic stops reflecting light and starts holding it. It does not announce itself. Satellites notice first. Then, researchers begin to compare notes. By late summer ...

While snowmelt is a major contributor to river flow, thawing permafrost is becoming increasingly important. Beneath the ...

Paleontologists at the Canadian Museum of Nature have recently been studying the skeletal remains of a rhinoceros. This might not sound remarkable at first, but what makes these remains fascinating is ...

A sweeping new study reveals that as Arctic permafrost thaws, it is dramatically reshaping rivers and releasing vast amounts ...

Permafrost sounds permanent, but there’s a catch: the top portion, called the active layer, freezes and thaws every year. In ...

Global efforts to reduce pollution will not be enough to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, scientists say. We will also need to extract over 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the ...

The shrinking sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is, overall, a disaster. But paradoxically, the melting of the ice can also fuel the engine of the Arctic food chains: algae. Algae are the main food source ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...