Writer Neil Shea gives us a look at the transcendent beauty of life in the Arctic — and how climate change is threatening its survival.

Scientists have unveiled a remarkable discovery beneath the Arctic ice, revealing a hidden ecosystem thriving in one of the planet’s most inhospitable environments. This groundbreaking find, announced ...

Melting Arctic ice is revealing a hidden world of nitrogen-fixing bacteria beneath the surface. These microbes, not the usual cyanobacteria, enrich the ocean with nitrogen, fueling algae growth that ...

I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat areas ...

As the Arctic Ocean loses its sea ice due to climate change, sunlight penetrates deeper into the water and encourages the growth of tiny plant-like organisms (phytoplankton). But to thrive, they need ...

Beneath the Arctic permafrost, ancient organisms have lain dormant for approximately 40,000 years, preserved in a frozen state that halted their biological activity. Recent scientific observations ...

The shrinking sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is, overall, a disaster. But paradoxically, the melting of the ice can also fuel the engine of the Arctic food chains: algae. Algae are the main food source ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

CLEVELAND — If you grew up in Northern Ohio, chances are you’ve heard someone say, “You think this is bad? You should’ve seen the Veterans Day storm back in ’96.” From Nov. 9–14, 1996, a nearly ...

As global temperatures rise, hunters in Alaska, who rely on Arctic ice, are seeing changes. CU expert Alexandra Jahn explains how these shifts are echoed in satellite data and climate models—on The ...