Scientists are reintroducing large animals to Siberia's Pleistocene Park. This project aims to restore ancient grassland ...

From feeding polar bears to helping cool the planet, Arctic sea ice plays a vital role in the global climate and northern ...

Arctic permafrost preserves ancient landscapes and extinct life for thousands of years. Rising global temperatures are ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued its annual Arctic Report Card on Tuesday, which documents the way rising temperatures, diminished ice, thawing permafrost, melting glaciers ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 13: Climate action and SDG 14: Life below water. This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on the Arctic ecosystem.

In an interdisciplinary cooperation project of the EU-projects FACE-IT, ECOTIP, and SEA-Quester, scientists investigated the consequences of climate change in the Arctic. They focused on a group of ...

The lush greenery of the Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the planet,” but really land plants are just half of the equation. The other lung dwells in the sea. Single-celled ...

A study led by the EPFL suggests that shipping emissions influence climate-relevant cloud formation and may affect regional climate processes far beyond the polar region.

Arctic and boreal latitudes are warming faster than any other region on Earth. In three new studies, Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine report how the ecosystems in these ...

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This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. River aufeis (ow′ fīse) are widespread features of the arctic cryosphere. They form when river channels become locally restricted by ice, ...