Sea ice retreat is creating new economic opportunities for shipping, but exposes a critical safety deficit. Rooted in ...

Our writer spent 30 hours traveling with arctic wolves and gained a new appreciation for these predators of the tundra.

The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren’t one of the 4 million people who live there. Yet, the changes underway in the Arctic as temperatures rise can ...

When a threatened species rebounds, it’s usually an unequivocal conservation success. When it comes to Snow Geese and their ...

ASHEVILLE - The entire Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, including the Asheville corridor, is closed until further notice after a winter storm brought snow, sleet and ice to large swaths of the ...

This decline of summer sea ice area has a multitude of effects, from changing local ecosystems to allowing more shipping through the Arctic Ocean. It also enhances global warming, because the loss of ...

A more thorough way to estimate how much the world's boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes contribute to current and future harmful methane emissions has been developed in part by University of Alberta ...

There are two things which climate scientists hate about “positive feedbacks”. One is that they are bad news. A positive feedback, in the science of complex systems, is an amplification; in climate ...

Visitors to the Tom Ridge Environmental Center can now explore the ice age and the Arctic on the big screen in the movie theater. The 175-seat theater reopened Feb. 20 for regular showings Tuesdays ...

Jack Frost has wasted no time in claiming the changing season, with snow falling in the UK for the first time in months.

Films hadn't been shown on the Tom Ridge Environmental Center's Big Green Screen on a regular basis for several years until the Feb. 20, 2024, screening of "Titans of the Ice Age" and "Wonders of the ...