Tag: Arctic
Human garbage is a plentiful but dangerous source of food for...
Thomas Scott Smith, Brigham Young University
More than 50 hungry polar bears invaded the Russian coastal village of Belushya...
Alaska on fire: Thousands of lightning strikes and a warming climate...
Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alaska is on pace for another historic wildfire year, with its fastest start...
Arctic greening won’t save the climate – here’s why
Donatella Zona, San Diego State University
Satellite images show the Arctic has been getting greener as temperatures in the...
2021 Arctic Report Card reveals a (human) story of cascading disruptions,...
Matthew Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Twila Moon, University of Colorado Boulder
Arctic sea ice hits its minimum extent for the year –...
Alek Petty, NASA and Linette Boisvert, NASA
September marks the end of the summer sea ice melt season and...
Competition heats up in the melting Arctic, and the US isn’t...
Rockford Weitz, Tufts University
For decades, the frozen Arctic was little more than a footnote in global economic competition,...
As extreme fires transform Alaska’s boreal forest, deciduous trees put a...
forest burns
Jill Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan; Heather Dawn Alexander, Auburn University; Michelle C. Mack, Northern Arizona...
Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland’s ice – and...
Andrew Christ, University of Vermont and Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
In 1963, inside a covert U.S. military base...
EXPLORING NATURE
I found a new meteor shower, and it comes from an...
Patrick M. Shober, NASA
Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of...
