A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests, and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

UVA architecture students get hands-on experience addressing the effects of melting snow in Alaska’s northernmost town.

The declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd use habitat with differing levels of climate change-related ...

Arctic tundra becomes a carbon source 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 ...