The low autumn light turned the tundra gold as James Schaeffer, 7, and his cousin Charles Gallahorn, 10, raced down a dirt ...

In Northwest Alaska, a proposed 211-mile mining road has divided an Inupiaq community already devastated by climate change.

Polar bears are expected to become extinct but there are some signs their DNA is changing and they are adapting to new ...

The tiny town of Churchill has two of Canada’s largest pieces of Arctic infrastructure, but years of neglect have left them ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant communities in the Arctic, with species flourishing in some areas and declining in others, according to a new study in Nature. The decades-long investigation, ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

WASHINGTON – The icy region at the top of the globe, lashed by wildfire and pelted with increasingly heavy precipitation, has tipped into “uncharted territory,” scientists reported Tuesday. This ...

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 ...