The Arctic is home to pristine artifacts. A few archeologists are rushing to find them, and the critical clues they can offer ...

Sea ice there acts like the planet’s air conditioner ... Scientists say that the rapid warming is due to human-caused climate change. “The Arctic is warming up to four times the global ...

Scientists in the Arctic and Antarctica say humans are triggering climate change, warning that shrinking glaciers and icecaps ...

“The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planet,” says Heinerth. “And it’s really evident here.” Sea ice is dynamic. It expands and contracts, melts and freezes; it’s ...

Scientists are seeing changes that could have consequences for the whole planet. By David Gelles In ... some of the most alarming signals came from the Arctic. The thawing tundra has become ...

Arctic sea-ice plays an important role in controlling the planet's temperature ... of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, caused by human activity, with declining sea-ice extent in the region.

Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands of years, has now become a source of planet-warming pollution ... and other effects of human-caused climate change—all driven primarily ...

But greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels have made our planet a hotter ... “With almost all human produced heat trapping emissions created outside of the Arctic, only the strongest actions ...