Performing controlled scientific experiments in a living ecosystem is complex and very difficult, but important to understanding how biological communities will respond to and affect climate change. This is an especially critical research question in the high Arctic, where global warming is happening at twice the rate of more temperate regions of the earth. {Read More »}

If you want to dig a ditch in the Arctic, you’d better bring more than a shovel. Even at the height of summer, you may only be able to dig down a foot or two before you hit solid, frozen soil known as permafrost. {Read More »}