The most recent Living Planet Report showed a 39 per cent drop in the average size of North America's monitored vertebrate wildlife populations, with habitat loss, overexploitation, invasive species, ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

Researchers have designed an alternative, autonomous observational method to monitor the Arctic's melting ice, which holds promise for improving the autonomy of marine vehicles, aiding in maritime ...

However, having read the two above articles I am now a little uncertain whether on future trips to northern Europe I should be packing T-shirts and flip-flops or thick Arctic woolies?

Mount Spurr, whose volcanic ash darkened Anchorage’s skies in 1953 and 1992, may be building toward another eruption.

The world's fastest-warming region is at its peril, stresses the new review paper. The Arctic will be ice-free for several months during summer if temperatures reach 2.7 degrees Celsius as projected.