Across much of the world, planting more trees means more carbon is stored, and global warming is reduced. That’s the thinking behind recent proposals to plant more trees in Alaska, Greenland and ...

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

The contrast between the declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd is correlated to different levels of ...

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

Recent findings indicate that the Arctic's traditional role as a planetary cooling agent is faltering, with hotspots and ...

An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last ...

Parts of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than they absorb, an international study published ...

The Arctic tundra now releases more carbon than it naturally draws down from the sky, as wildfires burn down its trees and permafrost thaw releases potent gases from its soil. Once-brown regions ...

Snow is white, which makes it reflect about three quarters of the solar energy hitting it when covering the tundra ... is more carbon in Arctic soils than in all the trees on Earth combined ...

Growing trees in the Arctic could cause some of that carbon ... Reindeer herding in the tundra of northern Russia. Ksenya_89 / shutterstock Last, but by no means least, beyond its effects on ...