In recent years, the Arctic tundra’s ability to emit less and absorb more carbon has taken a hit. A new analysis, which ...
The region is warming much faster than the rest of the planet and releasing carbon from its thawing soil. Umair Irfan of Vox ...
The last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a number of new milestones in ...
According to the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s 2024 Arctic Report Card, tundra in ...
For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost.
The Arctic of today looks stunningly different from the Arctic of even one to two decades ago. Over the Arctic Report Card’s ...
Arctic Report Card, released Dec. 10, we brought together 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, to report on the state of the Arctic ...
One area of particular concern to Rogers is the increase in wildfires. Fire season is getting longer, the fires are burning ...
Interglacials are, as the name suggests, warm periods between planetary glaciations when the expanse of ice on Earth shrinks.
The Mulgrave Hills are the farthest west extension of the Brooks Range. Arctic tundra, which for thousands of years was a net sink for atmospheric carbon, is now a net emitter, adding to the ...