A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment has shown that sea ice in the Southern Ocean plays a significant ...

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 ...

This past winter, researchers from the Center for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) at the University of Manitoba (UM) ...

Lead pollution likely caused widespread IQ declines throughout Europe 2,000 years ago, say scientists. Researchers used Arctic ice core records to reconstruct historic atmospheric lead pollution ...

The Arctic will be ice-free in the summer at some point by 2050, even if humans stop pumping out climate pollution, according to a report co-authored by Dirk Notz, head of sea ice at the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

One of the biggest draws of staying in an Arctic lodge is seeing the Northern Lights. The clear skies and low light pollution ...

Midas sank in the North Pacific Ocean, weeks after crew members abandoned ship when they couldn't extinguish an onboard fire.