"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

Earth passed the 1.5°C warming limit in 2024. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world.

Observed ecosystem-level changes in the Arctic include the disappearance of essential habitats, shifts in species’ timing and ranges, disruption of species’ relationships, declines in abundance, and ...

More than 170 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Ned Fetcher and several Wilkes students, are studying the effects of climate change on plants. Fetcher’s research could foretell the effects of global ...

“Detecting hotspots at the local and regional level helps us not only to build a more precise picture of how Arctic warming is affecting ecosystems,” Watts adds, “but to identify places ...

The analysis of the rapidly warming Arctic-boreal region, published in Geophysical Research Letters this week, provides a zoomed-in picture of ecosystems experiencing some of the fastest and most ...

The Arctic Ecosystems Research Group at University of Helsinki was established in November 2020. The aim is to integrate biogeochemical & ecological research within and between “systems” in the Arctic ...

A University of Manchester scientist is part of a team led by the University of Liverpool working on a £2.6m project to explore how the ecosystems in the Arctic Ocean are being altered by climate ...

An analysis of the rapidly warming Arctic-boreal region, published in Geophysical Research Letters, provides a zoomed-in picture of ecosystems experiencing some of the fastest and most extreme ...