There could be ripple effects. Scientists raise red flag after discovering concerning trend with plants in Arctic: 'An early ...

Researchers examining 20 years' data on orca sightings discovered a worrying migration trend linked to receding Arctic ice.

The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

Researchers closely monitor the ice breakup to track how rising temperatures are impacting the Arctic and its ecosystems. The ...

Mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife are on the rise despite reductions in mercury release, according to a new study published Thursday.

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquiliser dart at a polar bear. The predator bolted but soon slumped into the ...

Now years of work to clear particulate pollution from the air in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the approximately 7,500-square-mile district encompassing the city of Fairbanks and its outskirts ...

"What we set out to do is to try to understand how significant lead poisoning was from this background of air pollution and what its health effects might have been," Joe McConnell, a research ...

The Arctic Report Card contained a litany of records and near-records, as has become routine for the report. Surface air temperatures: second-warmest since 1900.

The fact that these remote areas of the Arctic see these undeniable human imprints shows that there's literally no corner of this planet we haven't touched." The team did find MSA levels bounced back ...

Air pollution from fossil fuels is altering the fundamental atmospheric chemistry of the remote Arctic, according to a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience. The findings highlight the global ...

A new study on ice cores from Alaska and Greenland found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels reaches the remote Arctic in amounts large enough to alter its fundamental atmospheric ...