NOAA scientists say Arctic is changing at an "alarming" rate 08:18. The Arctic is warming and changing rapidly, with record or near-record conditions documented across the region in 2020.

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

2017 was the second-hottest year on record for the Arctic, according to NOAA's Arctic Report Card. Even though the summer wasn't as hot as 2016's scorcher, the greening and melting processes ...

Research included in NOAA's Arctic report shows carbon once stored in the tundra's permafrost is actually being released into the atmosphere. In parts of the region, ...

This past summer in the Arctic was the warmest since 1900, leading to early snowmelt and diminished sea ice. ... Map of the Arctic Circle. Sarah Battle/NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory ...

The NOAA report highlighted the fact that around the Arctic, as rising temperatures put pressure on traditional ways of life, local people are trying to take their fates into their own hands.

The Arctic experienced its second-hottest year on record, according to a NOAA report. The Arctic tundra has become a source of emissions, rather than a carbon sink.

The substantial decline in Arctic sea ice extent since 1979 is one of the most iconic indicators of climate change, according to the report. Summer 2021 saw the second-lowest amount of older ...

Dec. 12 (UPI) --NOAA issued its annual report card for the Arctic this week. Not surprisingly, the marks were poor. Numerous studies have detailed climate change's outsized impacts on the Arctic ...

NOAA began its annual Arctic report in 2006. This year's peer-reviewed report was compiled by 61 authors from 11 countries and was issued during a briefing at the American Geophysical Union's ...

The Arctic is warming and changing rapidly, with record or near-record conditions documented across the region in 2020. That’s according to an international team of 133 researchers from over a ...