The Arctic tundra has historically helped reduce global emissions. But rising temperatures and wildfires in the region are ...

"The tundra, which is experiencing warming and increased wildfire, is now emitting more carbon that it stores, which will worsen climate change impacts," NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said in a ...

Tundra greenness: second-highest in the 25-year ... “But because we understand climate change, and we know that we’re continuing to put heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, we haven ...

The last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a number of new milestones in ...

Fires, intensified by climate change, release carbon trapped in soil and plants. More frequent infernos have now transformed the tundra into a net source of carbon dioxide emissions. It’s a ...

The population of migratory tundra caribou populations has declined ... the Arctic into a region prone to more weather and climate extremes and unwelcome surprises.

In recent years, the Arctic tundra’s ability to emit less and absorb more carbon has taken a hit. A new analysis, which ...

open image in gallery With wildfires and increased warming, scientists say the Arctic’s tundra is now a carbon source. The region had been a carbon sink for thousands of years (NOAA Climate.gov ...

Until recently he and his wife would pick summer berries on a trail through the tundra outside their river town in southwest ... which are critical to climate studies, monitoring and reporting, are ...

Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands of years, has now become a source of carbon dioxide. The new research, led by scientists at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth ...

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"Our observations now show that the Arctic tundra, which is experiencing warming and increased wildfire, is now emitting more carbon than it stores, which will worsen climate change impacts ...