permafrost

New research into the behavior of microbes in icy soils shows twice as much planet-warming carbon could be at risk of escaping into the atmosphere.

Driving around Iqaluit, MP Lori Idlout wonders aloud whether the rest of Canada really is in a cost-of-living crisis.

The popular narrative suggests that tackling methane emissions is the “low-hanging fruit” in the climate-solutions toolbox. The belief that turning off the taps on this “super-pollutant” could “buy us time” to address the climate crisis is widespread, shared by politicians, journalists, and even some scientists.

A team of researchers has travelled to a remote Arctic island in the hopes of better understanding the possibility of life on Mars.

As temperatures rise in the North, scientists say it's affecting how Arctic ground squirrels hibernate — and it could have serious consequences for the species.

Scientists are tracking neurotoxic methylmercury production in North America’s largest peatland.

The Biden administration’s approval of a massive oil development in northern Alaska commits the U.S. to yet another decades-long crude project even as scientists urgently warn that only a halt to more fossil fuel emissions can stem climate change.

Soaring temperatures are rapidly thawing permafrost, leading to huge carbon-spewing holes called thermokarst. Northern fires are making the situation even worse.

The school in Napakiak is just 20 metres from the Kuskokwim River and it’s getting closer every year. Just two years ago, the buffer zone was 61 metres.

Nakate spoke of her disappointment in the outcome of the U.N. climate talks in Scotland and what she and other young activists plan for the year to come.

While conducting research in Greenland, ice scientist Twila Moon was struck this summer by what climate change has doomed Earth to lose and what could still be saved.

Wang Yuetang’s sneakers sink into the mud of what was once his thriving corn and peanut farm as he surveys the damage done by an unstable climate.

When staff at Iqaluit's Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre learned water from the city's distribution pipes wasn't safe to drink they knew some people would have no access to water.

IPCC says gas produced by farming, shale gas and oil extraction are playing an ever-greater role in overheating our planet.

Lightning strikes in the far north could double by 2100. That means more wildfires, which could release massive amounts of planet-warming gas.