Northern wildfires may be unleashing hidden reservoirs of ancient carbon — and climate models are missing much of it.

By centering their reporting on a five-time Greenlandic dog-sledding champion, Emma Burrows, Evgeniy Maloletka and Kwiyeon Ha delivered a vivid, ...

Bates students are getting a firsthand look at 7,000 years of ancient climate history with a group of lake sediment cores ...

China's Chang'e-6 mission landed on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration ...

Sunspot AR3038 is massive and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has had its eye on it. Watch a time-lapse of it growing to over three times the size of Earth. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NAS ...

For years, satellite data suggested that autumn snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere was actually increasing — a surprising twist in a warming world. But a new analysis reveals that this apparent ...

As Russia displays its military might in the Arctic region, the Western alliance is beginning a mission to increase its presence there. By Lara Jakes Reporting from NATO headquarters in Brussels ...

A massive ice fracture formed across Lake Erie over the weekend. The 80-mile-long crack stretched from Canada to Ohio, according to NOAA. Lake Erie is almost 100% frozen over with ice due to cold ...

Reykjaviik, Iceland — As rising global temperatures speed up the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it's set off a boom of ships taking routes that previously were frozen and not traversable. The ...

Arctic sea ice helps cool the planet and influences weather patterns around the world, but it is disappearing faster than ever as the climate warms. Scientists have now developed a new forecasting ...

EXCLUSIVE: After U.S. officials detected a sharp rise in Russian and Chinese military incursions near Alaska — including a growing number of joint operations — Sen. Dan Sullivan is warning that the ...

Arctic sea ice has large effects on the global climate. By cooling the planet, Arctic ice impacts ocean circulation, atmospheric patterns, and extreme weather conditions, even outside the Arctic ...