The growth of woody plants in Arctic tundra regions affects more than caribou. In northwestern Alaska, where the growth has been most dramatic, it has attracted a proliferation of beavers ...

By Liz Kimbrough The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to ...

The book and the film used the limits of human bodies to cultivate empathy for the experience of other beings.

The risk of losing stored carbon is high. Scientists warn against problematic trend gaining traction in the Arctic: 'It does ...

(Photo provided by the National Park Service) Each year’s report card focuses on some specific Arctic species, and this year’s document described warming effects on tundra caribou and Alaska ...

The Arctic tundra shifted this past year from capturing ... and said the NOAA report card also documents rapid declines in caribou herds. “Particularly the large migratory herds, including ...

A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...

Arctic National Wildlife RefugeCaribou ... trimmed in cobalt blue; the buff brown tundra of coastal plain, dotted with caribou; the rolling foothills rising into the mighty Brooks Range, sparkling ...

Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands of years ... Arctic seals are doing okay. Caribou, not so much Ice seal populations remain healthy despite warming water and declining sea ice.

Climate change has already been linked to lower survival or population declines of Arctic species from the sea-ice dependent polar bear, to the glacier-affiliated Kittlitz’s murrelet, to the ...

The temperature has also been rising; the past nine years have been the warmest on record in the Arctic. The changes have affected the region’s wildlife, with migratory tundra caribou ...