Over the last ten years, strange craters have torn open the icy ground of Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula. These gaping holes, ...

The relocation highlights America’s failure to prepare for the ways climate change is making some places uninhabitable.

The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places ...

Rising temperatures could cause huge amounts of toxic materials to seep out of sealed-off mines into waterways ...

In Nunapitchuk, for example, water damage during the 2020 floods rendered several homes uninhabitable, forcing some displaced ...

Using over a decade of synthesis science and region-based models, a new study led by Northern Arizona University and the international Permafrost Carbon Network and published in Annual Review of ...

Vegetation in Arctic tundra regions is limited due to dry conditions, poor soil quality, frigid temperatures, and permafrost. Arctic tundra plants must adapt to the cold, dark conditions of the ...

The tundra biome is the coldest and one of the largest ecosystems on Earth. It covers about one-fifth of the land on the planet, primarily in the Arctic circle but also in Antarctica as well as a ...

Scientists say the tundra’s permafrost stores a third of the planet’s carbon. But if the plants on the surface change, that could alter the permafrost, changing how much carbon is being stored.