When I was drinking coffee with a cab-driving-author friend of the same vintage last week, he said of my occupation: “It’s the best job in Alaska.” After a few seconds of pondering, I nodded.  It has ...

The gig has taken Ned Rozell on adventures across Alaska, from Mount Katmai to the Nogahabara Dunes and Kiska Island.

The world is adept at balancing the warming gases in its atmosphere, but anthropogenic climate change is challenging this ...

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

NASA warns that the Arctic-Boreal Zone is now a carbon emitter, not a sink. Melting permafrost and wildfires are accelerating ...

Red wood ants are typically found in Eurasia’s temperate and boreal forests. But in recent decades, more nests have been disappearing as the forests have fallen victim to logging, urbanization ...

The Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ), once a reliable carbon reservoir, is now releasing more carbon dioxide (CO₂) than it absorbs. A ...

For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone has acted as a critical carbon reservoir, locking away vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...

Greenland Ice Sheet Meltdown Imagine standing on a vast expanse of white, seemingly endless. This is the Greenland Ice Sheet, ...

Research is revealing how climate change is driving the Arctic-boreal zone's shift from a carbon sink to a carbon source.

Melting Arctic permafrost is creating ongoing challenges for communities across the North, and a new study is shedding light on how those threats are perceived from region to region. Understanding ...

Accelerated permafrost thaw in the state has also been observed in recent decades. Siberia presents an interesting case, as the region’s boreal environments represent some of the strongest net sources ...