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Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska.

Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?

Elizabeth Devitt 27 Mar 2025
A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025

The warming Arctic is now a carbon source, report finds

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jan 2025
A group of chinstrap penguins on pack ice on Seal Island in Antarctica.

Arctic sea ice hits summer minimum; Antarctic hovers at new winter lows

Elizabeth Devitt 24 Sep 2024
Marcel König and Natascha Oppelt (both from the University of Kiel, Germany) measuring melt pond optical properties during RV Polarstern campaign PASCAL, north of Svalbard in June 2017.

Arctic melt ponds influence sea ice extent each summer — but how much?

Michael C. Bradbury 20 Aug 2024

Indigenous Alaskans drive research in a melting arctic

Gabe Allen 4 Jun 2024

Alaska’s Arctic rivers turn rusty orange as permafrost thaws

Liz Kimbrough 31 May 2024
A multilayered lenticular cloud hovers near Mount Discovery, a volcano about 70 km (44 mi) southwest of McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

Polar warning: Warming temperatures mean more than melted ice

Elizabeth Devitt 27 May 2024
A poler bear.

Freeze on Russian collaboration disrupts urgently needed permafrost data flow

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Feb 2024
The National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition team climbs up a steep slope.

Sagarmatha microbes may survive harsh conditions for decades

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Mar 2023
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022

Siberian heat drives Arctic ice extent to record low for early July

Gloria Dickie 10 Jul 2020

Arctic permafrost moving toward crisis, abrupt thaw a growing risk: Studies

Gloria Dickie 18 Mar 2020

Beyond Paris: COP22, a critical nuts-and-bolts carbon-cutting summit

Justin Catanoso 3 Nov 2016

The week in environmental news – Dec 12, 2015

Brittany Stewart 12 Dec 2015

Climate change’s ominous secret

Larry Kraft 21 May 2014

Rise in 1.5 degrees Celsius likely to spark massive greenhouse gas release from permafrost

Jeremy Hance 25 Feb 2013

Massive methane leak in Arctic could trigger abrupt warming

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2010

Climate change doubles coastal erosion in Alaska over 5-year period

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2009

Melting permafrost will be major driver of global warming

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2008

Sea ice loss may triple warming over northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2008

Melting permafrost affects greenhouse gas emissions

Michigan State University 10 Aug 2007

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