Zombie Fire Season Is Here in the Arctic
[ad_1] We call this new state the hot metastable state of peat soils. In this context, “metastable” means a long...
Airlander 10’s ‘flying bum’ set to jet eco-tourists to the Arctic
[ad_1] A voluptuous aircraft dubbed “The Flying Bum” has joined the fleet of Grands Espaces, a French eco-tourism company. Officially...
ESA picks Germany’s Exolaunch for arctic weather satellite mission
[ad_1] The European Space Agency (ESA) has picked Germany’s Exolaunch to provide critical launch services for its Artic Weather Satellite...
Chum Salmon Are Spawning in the Arctic. It’s an Ominous Sign
[ad_1] By laying eggs in the rivers, the chum salmon might actually help native fishes by providing food for them....
An Abandoned Arctic Military Base Just Spilled a Scientific Secret
[ad_1] During the Cold War, the US built a network of tunnels in the Greenland ice sheet. Sixty years later,...
The Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean Is Underway
[ad_1] This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In the Fram Strait off...
Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Dozens of once crystal-clear...
Huge Sponges Are Eating an Extinct Arctic Ecosystem
[ad_1] Stretching for nearly 80 miles across the seafloor of the central Arctic, the Langseth Ridge is craggy, barren, and...
A Water Crisis Reveals You Can’t Recycle in the Arctic
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on Canada's National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A week-long water crisis...
The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years
[ad_1] Every year, sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean shrinks to a low point in mid-September. This year it...
Why Arctic sea ice just crashed to an extreme, record low
[ad_1] Where there should be ice-clad seas, there is vast, open ocean. Arctic sea ice — declining now for decades...
GitHub is done depositing its open source codes in the Arctic
[ad_1] Last year, GitHub revealed its plan to store all of its open source software in an Arctic vault as...
One wild chart shows intensity of this year’s Arctic Circle fires
[ad_1] For a vivid idea of how extreme the Arctic Circle fires have been this year, look at the stark...
Why the Arctic Is Warming So Fast, and Why That’s So Alarming
[ad_1] On Saturday, the residents of Verkhoyansk, Russia, marked the first day of summer with 100 degree Fahrenheit temperatures. Not...
How the Arctic Circle just eclipsed 100 degrees
[ad_1] Temperatures hit triple digits at a Russian town in the Arctic Circle on Saturday, either breaking or nearly breaking...