They're tracking rapid changes across the treeless tundra landscape as the climate warms. NGEE Arctic field observations are fed into a massive computer model of the Earth created by DOE ...
And natural landscapes, like the Arctic tundra, are losing their ability to help reduce emissions. Simultaneously, the impacts of climate change are growing, increasing Arctic wildfires ...
For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon dioxide sink, meaning that the landscape was taking up and storing this gas ...
The increase in average temperatures is changing weather and landscapes in the Arctic, speeding up the climate crisis worldwide. For example, beavers are moving into Alaska's tundra and ...