The Arctic Has Long Been a Carbon-Capture Giant, but That’s Starting to Change
The world is adept at balancing the warming gases in its atmosphere, but anthropogenic climate change is challenging this ...
Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago
The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a ...
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The “North Pole Of America” Sinks Into Darkness For 66 Days. Here’s Everything You Need to Know About This Small Town in Alaska.
Shutterstock Extraordinary is a regular Tuesday here. Utqiagvik in Alaska is America’s North Pole. We’re talking midnight sun ...
Groundwater in the Arctic is delivering more carbon into the ocean than was previously known
A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ...
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The Great Un-Freezing: Record Antarctic surface melt extent set; Peninsula melting slows
Surface melting for the Antarctic ice sheet appears to have set a record for the 46-year satellite observation period on January 2, 2025. All areas of the Antarctic coast that generally see ...
My Wife and I Tried to Walk Home in an Arctic Storm. We Almost Died
When two schoolteachers living in Point Lay, Alaska, decided to try heading home in a blizzard, they nearly loose their way ...
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A third of the Arctic is now a greenhouse gas emitter, Mass. study finds
A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...
As U.S. shivered through polar vortex, one state was unusually warm
If someone asked you, “Where can I go in the United States to escape the frigid air this January?” what would you say?