Amid the peatlands of northern Sweden, billions of microbes are quietly rewriting their genetic playbooks—and doing so far more often than scientists realized.

An international research team has recorded the deepest cold seeps ever documented in the Arctic, finding active gas hydrate ...

Melting sea ice in the Arctic region is leading to extreme rainfall and flooding in South Asia. In a newly published paper, scientists predict that Arctic sea ice declines will put residents of South ...

Far below the Arctic’s drifting ice, the seafloor has begun to change in a way few people ever see. Stones are falling out of ...

The diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities in the Arctic, and has heightened interest in, and concerns about, the region’s future. The United States, by virtue of Alaska, ...

Scientists discover black Arctic icebergs carrying tons of rock, reshaping the seafloor and revealing new effects of climate change.

In a Penn State lab, a small cylinder of soil sits wired with sensors, slowly cooling as it mimics conditions thousands of miles away. At first, it looks unremarkable, like dirt from an average ...

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) and total heat exposures (THEs), extreme warming events occurring across the global oceans, seriously threaten marine ecosystems and coastal communities as the climate warms.

Rapid climate change is upending plant communities in the Arctic, with species flourishing in some areas and declining in others, according to a new study in Nature. The decades-long investigation, ...