NASA's Terra satellite recently captured the seasonal breakup of sea ice in Canada's Amundsen Gulf, according to NASA's Earth ...

Swedish photographer Christian Aslund visited the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, capturing images that recreated archive pictures of glaciers taken from the same locations more than 100 years ago.

Just a month after its launch, ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite has already delivered its first images, notably capturing Storm Boris, which has been wreaking havoc across central Europe.

The Arctic is rapidly changing from the climate crisis, with no "new normal," scientists warn. Wildfires and permafrost thaw are making the tundra emit more carbon than it absorbs. From beaver ...

What’s more, the study finds, Arctic warming hasn’t always increased smoothly over time. It’s jumped sharply a couple times over the last few decades — once around 1986 and again around 1999.

For millennia, the Arctic absorbed more carbon than it emitted. That’s changed. The region is warming much faster than the rest of the planet and releasing greenhouse gases from its thawing soil.

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An Arctic Monkeys spokesman has defended the band's album cover, after it was criticised for showing a man smoking a cigarette. ... "You can see from the image smoking is not doing him the world of ...

Stunning new images of Pluto backlit by the sun reveal a landscape of majestic mountains, foggy plains and hazes. The images, taken on July 14 by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from a distance of ...

Environment Arctic permafrost is now a net source of major greenhouse gases. An Arctic-wide survey has found that the permafrost region is emitting more carbon into the atmosphere than it absorbs ...

Known as Arctic amplification, the melting of the ice reveals new swathes of dark ocean which, rather than reflecting light and heat away from the earth, actually absorbs it.