The Arctic Circle has shifted from storing carbon to becoming a source of it as permafrost melts and wildfires occur more frequently. A new study has produced the first map of coastal communities ...

Eastern Russia and Alaska, both within and outside the Arctic Circle, have been particularly badly affected. Russia's Federal Forestry Agency says more than 2.7m hectares (6.7m acres) of remote ...

The last time Sakha, Russia, experienced wildfires was in 2021 Wildfires are once again ravaging the Arctic Circle, the EU's climate change monitor - Copernicus - has reported. It is the third ...