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4 million lakes in ‘Lost Lakes’ map offer clues to Arctic permafrost

The Arctic is dotted with millions of lakes that sit on persistently frozen soil called permafrost. These lakes are crucial for the region’s wildlife and local communities. However...

Arctic permafrost is thawing and leaking heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere

As Ted Schuur stepped along the edges of Smith Lake, a bubble surfaced from the muck underfoot. And then another. They’re bubbles of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas made fro...

Permafrost, wetland, wildfire and freshwater emissions could amplify climate change by up to 30%, study finds

As frozen ground thaws in the Arctic, dead plants and animals locked in soils for thousands of years start to decay, releasing methane and carbon dioxide. Those gases trap heat fro...

Snowpack surveys reveal hidden patchwork of winter carbon emissions in Arctic tundra

High-resolution snowpack measurements at a western Canadian Arctic site show winter carbon dioxide and methane fluxes vary sharply over tens of metres, controlled by snow depth and...

Thawing Permafrost Is Releasing Carbon, but Something Unexpected Happens

Much of the ancient carbon released from thawing Arctic permafrost appears to end up trapped in seabed sediments rather than quickly returning to the atmosphere. The Arctic’s froze...

The place that never freezes: the Arctic habitat where global heating threatens more ice, not less

The race to study the North Water between Canada and Greenland before it changes has led to a bold plan for an Inuit-run protected areaElectric-blue meltwater sprays up under Terry...

Arctic Infrastructure Was Built on Frozen Ground That’s Starting to Thaw — Drones Can Help Spot the Permafrost Changes C...

From the air, Wainwright, Alaska, looks like a perfectly stable band of homes and roads between the Chukchi Sea and a vast, flat tundra. But just below the surface, the frozen grou...

Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking, warming the planet

The Arctic has reached one of climate change's scary tipping points as heat-trapping gases escape into the atmosphere, warming the Earth.

Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking, warming the planet

The Arctic has reached one of climate change's scary tipping points as heat-trapping gases escape into the atmosphere, warming the Earth.

The Last Ice Area: Protecting the Arctic's longest lasting refuge

As the Arctic warms at an alarming rate, one vast expanse of sea ice is expected to outlast the rest. But safeguarding this Arctic refuge will require protecting not only the Last...

Loss of a rare lake reveals how warming has hit the Canadian Arctic’s ‘planetary fridge’

When an ice shelf blocks a polar fjord, it sparks the creation of an ecosystem like no other: the epishelf lake. Meltwater pools up behind the ice shelf, floating above the denser...

Study Finds the Arctic Could Lose Far More Sea Ice Than Scientists Previously Predicted

Clues from a warmer Arctic 6,000 years ago suggest the region could lose a million square kilometers more winter sea ice than scientists previously expected. The loss of Arctic sea...

Arctic sea ice hits another troubling low in 2026

Arctic sea ice is shrinking in both winter and summer, with satellite records revealing that the region's remaining ice is becoming thinner, younger, and more vulnerable to melting...

Arctic Sea Ice Loss Could Be Far Worse Than Models Predict

A warm period 6,000 years ago provides clues to better forecast the Arctic's future.

Northern Peatlands Are Greening Unevenly as Warming Reshapes Their Canopies

A 23-year satellite analysis of northern peatlands reveals widespread local greening but no significant map-scale increase in leaf area, with canopy change shaped by moisture, tree...

Scientists figured out a way to map the planet's melting permafrost in real time

Disappearing lakes and artificial intelligence are helping researchers gather data to map the thawing of permafrost across the globe.

Thawing permafrost makes town’s water undrinkable

Greenland Bases Forever

Since at least 2019, Trump has publicly spoken out about the need to protect the Arctic corridor by replacing the 1951 Treaty. And he was reviled unfairly for the effort.

Polar oceans transformed as warming melts ice habitats, research shows

As temperatures rise, Arctic sea ice has shrunk by nearly half a million square kilometers per decade since 1979.

As Permafrost Melts, Toxic Metals Are Poisoning Rivers With Levels 70 Times Higher Than Normal

An aerial view of the Kutuk River in Alaska's Gates of the Arctic National Park. (Ken Hill/National Park Service)

Forces deep inside Earth helped Antarctica freeze before the Arctic

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic. Slow-moving waves deep inside Earth gradually lifted East Antarctica, building m...

Protecting the Future of Alaska’s Western Arctic

The Western Arctic’s wetlands, lakes, and tundra provide essential habitat for millions of migratory birds and other wildlife, sustain Indigenous subsistence livelihoods, and store...

Natural feedbacks will warm world an extra 20 per cent this century

Ecosystems like wetlands emit more carbon as temperatures rise. By 2100, such feedback loops will increase warming by 20 to 30 per cent more than anticipated

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #43 2026

Open access notables Rapid Increase in Geogenic CO2 Emissions from Antarctic Permafrost, Ruggiero et al., Global Biogeochemical Cycles Antarctic permafrost and ice-free soils are...