Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands of years, has now become a source of planet-warming pollution. As wildfires increase and hotter temperatures melt long-frozen ground, the ...

Melting sea ice has been a challenge for wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic. A recent study published in Global Change ...

A recent study is shedding light on the ongoing accumulation of mercury pollution in the Arctic — despite the international ...

Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands of years, has now become a source of planet-warming pollution. As wildfires increase and hotter temperatures melt long-frozen ground, the ...

Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A study published in Nature Communications by researchers from Aarhus University and the ...

As Arctic sea ice melts, Russia is racing to control new trade routes, extract untapped resources, and cement its military ...

Those levels are now 20 to 30 times higher in Arctic wildlife than they were before the industrial era began, even as global mercury pollution has fallen since the 1970s.

The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

By analyzing ice cores from the Arctic that preserved detailed records of atmospheric pollution, study authors determined that lead emissions from Roman silver mining and smelting operations ...

MOSCOW. July 4 (Interfax) - Last year was the warmest in Russia's Arctic zone, 1.24 degrees Celsius above the norm of the 1991-2020 base period, according to a "Review of the state and pollution of ...

HX Expeditions is launching community-led Arctic excursions and initiating a global marine conservation project, The Big Blue ...