Deep in the ice-covered peaks of Norway lies the sleepy Arctic village of Svalbard. With fewer than 3,000 residents, its ...

In a remote corner of Northern Norway, inside a dark coastal cave sealed off for millennia, scientists have opened a rare time capsule of life from 75,000 years ago. The bones and DNA traces of dozens ...

● Provide climate stability: Arctic lands store massive amounts of carbon in permafrost. Keeping them intact helps slow the ...

Tundra voles are among the small mammals Dr. Phil Manlick, with the U.S. Forest Service, studies to understand how warming is changing boreal and Arctic food webs. Tiny organisms are making big moves ...

The Greenland shark ( Somniosus microcephalus) is no ordinary fish. Measuring up to 23 feet (seven meters) long and capable ...

The Arctic could be "ice-free" in just a few years, scientists have found. Here's what that means. The region, which sits at the northernmost point of the globe, is a unique ecosystem characterized by ...

Embedded in the sea ice of the arctic are creatures so small, you can't see them with the naked eye. These microalgae convert energy from sunlight into fuel. The arctic ecosystem depends on them. In ...

Kelps, here Saccharina latissima around Nuuk, Greenland, are brown macroalgae that form dense and extensive underwater forests along Arctic rocky shores. The ecological role of kelps can be compared ...

An international team of scientists and students, led by the Arctic University of Norway, and including chemists and ...

New economic developments in the Arctic, such as trans-Arctic shipping and oil exploitation, will bring along unprecedented risks of marine oil spills. The world is therefore calling for a thorough ...

A new study led by Jochen Knies from the iC3 Polar Research Hub has found worrying signs that climate change may be undermining the capacity of Arctic fjords to serve as effective carbon sinks. The ...

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