More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

A polar vortex dipping down from Siberia is bringing a cold front with frigid temperatures to millions Americans. See maps of the arctic blast.

This marks a critical shift in the role of this region in regulating ... maps (1 km x 1 km). These maps reveal a nuanced picture of carbon dynamics across the Arctic. “The Arctic isn’t one ...

For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone has acted as a critical carbon reservoir, locking away vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...

Extreme cold could expose residents of several states to conditions like hypothermia and frostbite over the weekend.

The Arctic is one of the coldest and least populated regions on Earth, much of it covered by ice. But in recent years it has become one of the most important sites of geopolitical tensions — and ...

By Liz Kimbrough The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to ...

This scenario would dramatically reshape the Arctic, the fastest-warming region of Earth. A new review paper, published in Science on Feb. 7, highlights these changes and their far-reaching ...

Animation of terrestrial CO 2 fluxes in the Arctic-boreal ... pixels on the map showed an annual increasing net uptake of CO 2. "Carbon cycling in the permafrost region is really starting to ...

(top) Map of average air temperature across the ... To better understand the acceleration of the warming in the Arctic region, Sommerkorn noted the region operates "like [a] refrigerator of ...