Breakthrough that builds on plastic-eating bugs first discovered by Japan in 2016 promises to enable full recycling.
A super-enzyme that degrades plastic bottles six times faster than before has…
Sea ice minimum has fallen below 4m sq km for the second time in 40 years as the climate crisis rapidly transforms the region.
Rising temperatures in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar…
A recent Science Magazine feature blamed an underwater heat blob for exacerbating sea ice loss as it proclaimed what many Arctic scientists already know: Arctic sea ice is racing toward its demise…
What is the environmental footprint of your favorite pair of blue jeans?
A new study indicates it might be quite large. The study, published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters Wednesday…
The Arctic wildfire season has been the worst since record-keeping began.
"Zombie" wildfires that were smoldering beneath the Arctic ice all winter suddenly flared to life this summer when the snow…
The Trump administration has announced that it is opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development – the latest twist in a decades-long battle over the fate of this remote…
A 4,000-year-old ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed into the sea, leaving Canada without any fully intact ice shelves, Reuters reported. The Milne Ice Shelf lost more than 40 percent of…
The 2020 melting season still has at least another month to gnaw away at Arctic sea ice, but it has already consumed a lot. In July, the ice cover spanning the Arctic Ocean reached a record-low…
I study the Arctic. The decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord is reprehensible – but we can’t give up hope.
When you stand facing an exposed edge of permafrost, you can feel it from a…
Just 15 years from now, the Arctic Ocean may be functionally ice-free for part of the year, a new study has found. Research published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change projects that due to…
Scientists gave the caps 5 years to live in a 2017 study. Climate change killed them in record time.
On frosty Ellesmere Island, where Arctic Canada butts up against the northwestern edge of…
New research explores how lower-latitude oceans drive complex changes in the Arctic Ocean, pushing the region into a new reality distinct from the 20th-century norm.
The University of Alaska…
Temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared to a record average for June amid a heat wave that is stoking some of the worst wildfires the region has ever known, fresh EU data showed on Tuesday (7 July).…
Norilsk Nickel suspends workers at metals plant who dumped the water in ‘flagrant violation of operating rules’
A Russian mining giant said on Sunday it had suspended workers at a metals plant who…
The number of fires in the vast north Asian region of Siberia increased fivefold this week, according to the Russian forest fire aerial protection service, as temperatures in the Arctic continued…
The 38 degrees Celsius reading is 18 degrees warmer than the average June high temperature.
A north-eastern Siberian town looks to have set a record for the highest temperature ever documented in…
To better predict climate change, scientists need accurate models which predict the behavior of many natural processes. One of these is the melting of Arctic sea ice, which requires expensive and…
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