Arctic Watch

Facts About the Arctic

Analysis

The unique impact from melting arctic sea ice

Diminishing Arctic sea ice has led to enhanced evaporation from the Arctic marginal seas (AMS), which is expected to alter precipitation over land.

An early and suddenly Hudson Bay opening

The sea ice cover in May 2024 was marked by an unusually early opening of eastern Hudson Bay.

New achievements in the Arctic for Week 22, 2024

NASA Langley Researchers to Study Arctic Climate System This Summer

New Facts About the Arctic in June 2024

2012’s “June plunge” is almost upon us, and if 2024’s current trajectory continues extent will cross above 2012 for the first time since February in a week or so.

Stunning and shrewd approach to grow Arctic presence

Russia is adopting a so-called hybrid approach to growing its strategic influence in the Arctic, through research, increased maritime activities and tourism.

Sizable carbon emissions from Arctic permafrost

Wildfire emissions from biomass burning over the diverse range of permafrost regions and their share in global wildfire emissions have not been revealed.

Unexpected metal mobilization from thawing permafrost to unique aquatic ecosystems

Here, we present an emergent threat from metal to Arctic watersheds based on observations from 75 streams in Alaska’s Brooks Range that recently turned orange.

The Global South in the Daring Arctic North

A group people in the Inuit city of Iqaluit, the capital of the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut, rallied and called for a ceasefire.

Western Arctic leads the way on unusual springtime decline

April sea ice loss in the Arctic proceeded at a near-average rate overall, with the majority of ice losses in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk.