This artistic diagram of the subsea and coastal permafrost ecosystems emphasizes greenhouse gas production and release. Sandia National Laboratories geosciences engineer Jennifer Frederick is one…
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Schematic showing aerosol processes of climate relevance in the Arctic for polar night. Abbreviations stand for: INP — ice nucleating particles, IR — infrared. Red…
Full moon in Tromsø, Norway. Credit: Maja Sojtaric High tides may even counter the potential threat of submarine methane release from the warming Arctic. It…
1979 – 2019 Throughout 2020, the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas endured several notable weather and climate events. In spring, a persistent heatwave over Siberia…
For animals in the Arctic, life is a balancing act. Seasonal cues, such as warmer spring temperatures or cooler temperatures in the fall, tell animals…
Aleutian Islands are an archipelago comprising dozens of islands with 40 active and 17 dormant volcanoes. A researcher from MIPT has proposed a new explanation…
This satellite image of Lapland combines three radar acquisitions from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission to show changes in land conditions over time. The first image…
Water from Canada’s Mackenzie River enters the blue Arctic Ocean in July 2012. White areas in the top half of the photo are largely sea…
The Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing regions in the world. Diminishing sea ice, thawing permafrost and melting glaciers are all direct effects…
The study is the first to measure vegetation changes across the Arctic tundra, from Alaska and Canada to Siberia, using satellite data from Landsat, a…
The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition will make a major contribution to Arctic climate science. Spearheaded by the Alfred…
This image, acquired on August 11 by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, shows Eureka in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Eureka is inside the Arctic Circle,…
Steven Fons. Credit: Calle Schonning Ph.D. student Steven Fons’ Arctic research adventure, complicated by COVID-19. For Steven Fons, returning home to D.C. in June was…
A phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea turned surface waters a milky blue in July 2016. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz and Joshua Stevens, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response,…
Ecosystem ecologist and post-doctoral fellow Kyle Arndt checking on the measurement equipment set up by SDSU in Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. New research finds that…
Climate change leads to longer growing seasons in the Arctic. A new study shows that predators like wolf spiders respond to the changing conditions and…
Beavers Gnawing Away at the Permafrost The large rodents are massively changing landscapes in the Arctic, which could have serious consequences for the frozen soils…
A small glacier in the Arctic region of Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, as photographed by NASA’s Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX). This is one of the…
Polar bears on Arctic sea ice. Credit: Dirk Notz The Arctic Ocean in summer will very likely be ice free before 2050, at least temporally.…
This image shows sediment-rich sea ice in the Transpolar Drift Stream. A crane lowers two researchers from the decks of the icebreaker RV Polarstern to…