When ConocoPhillips won federal approval last year to explore for oil in the Alaskan Arctic, environmental groups warned the ...

A federal judge ruled that regulators reasonably concluded a combination of snow cover, frozen soil and operational limits ...

The fragile Arctic tundra is undergoing a dramatic transformation, according to a University of Gothenburg study. The international research shows that plants from nearby forests are steadily ...

Two bull caribou of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd swimming across the Kobuk River during fall 2011 migration in Kobuk Valley National Park. The herd has been in decline since hitting its peak ...

Purposefully sinking boreal trees could help lock away carbon for millennia or longer, but the audacious plan comes with ...

This month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual Arctic Report Card. It contained sobering news about the state of the tundra. NOAA reported that after storing ...

For thousands of years, wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope were rare. That changed sharply in the 20th century, when warming ...

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Authors: Twila A. Moon, University of Colorado Boulder; Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder, and Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks The Arctic can feel like a far-off ...

The Arctic has no clear definition, Mr Rosen writes. Some define it as anything above the Arctic Circle. Others see it as where the semi-arid grassland of the steppe turns into frigid tundra, with a ...

The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, once the biggest in Alaska, is faltering, having fallen from a high of 490,000 animals in 2003 to only 152,000 as of 2023. But to the east, the Porcupine Caribou Herd ...