The Arctic landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate. In addition to rising temperatures, climate change is causing episodes of extreme melting, which occurs when ice losses that previously took ...

Arctic sea ice has long been one of the planet’s most sensitive climate barometers, but until now scientists have struggled to say with confidence how much ice will survive a given summer. A new ...

Three Arctic seal species have been moved up to higher threat categories on the IUCN Red List, with one now endangered and two now near threatened. Global warming is melting away the sea ice they need ...

When it comes to global warming and climate change, we often hear news stories about tipping points where Earth's systems shift into a new and dangerous state. One such may have been reached in the ...

From Hudson Bay to the Chukchi Sea, meet 19 polar bear groups and the people racing to protect them as ice disappears.

Josep Bonsoms receives postdoctoral funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PRE2021-097046) and from ANTALP via the Government of Catalonia (2017-SGR-1102).