Methanotrophs, including those that capture methane from the air, seem to outcompete methanogens in dry environments, a new ...

Picture a deep freezer suddenly failing on a hot summer day. What happens to everything inside? Now imagine that freezer is ...

The depths of the Arctic Ocean have warmed more than scientists expected. New research has placed the blame on warmer water ...

Minerals from a cave in Greenland reveal that the Arctic was warm and had no permafrost, with CO₂ levels similar to today's.

By Carl Cardinal Hunters in Igloolik, Nunavut, used to know exactly where to dig. Just beneath the gravel surface, into the cold, solid layer of permafrost ideal for preparing one of the most ...

Researchers study pikas because they are an indicator of changes affecting the health of mountain ecosystems that humans depend on A new study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder ...

As the U.S., China and others compete in space, the need for fast and frequent communication links with satellites orbiting ...

Tia here with news that a trial of the pill form of the GLP-1 drug semaglutide has failed to delay Alzheimer's progression in ...

Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.

Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left ...

Caribou, migrating birds and many other types of wildlife rely on this expanse of wetlands and tundra. Humanity and the ...

Researchers say they have recovered RNA from the remains of a woolly mammoth that lived roughly 39,000 years ago.