A new study finds that Arctic ringed seals face a double threat from climate change and long-lasting pollutants.

Last September, I traveled to this far north outpost as part of a research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

New research shows a single year of warmer-than-average Arctic temperatures can cause malnutrition in Arctic seals, intensifying risks to Inuit food security and northern ecosystems already under ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Scientists are investigating whether a warming Arctic is changing the behavior of the polar vortex, ...

The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, with average temperatures increasing by about 4°C in the last four ...

Rapid peatland expansion across the Arctic could change the global carbon balance, depending on how long new carbon remains stored.

Decades of advances in satellite observation made it seem as though Arctic snow cover was growing, when in reality satellites ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The study, from an international team of researchers who analyzed decades of data, declares that a "new era" of extreme weather ...

For years, satellite data suggested that autumn snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere was actually increasing — a surprising twist in a warming world. But a new analysis reveals that this apparent ...

Two conservation groups are suing today over a massive oil and gas lease sale in the Western Arctic that was recently announced by the Bureau of Land Management.