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

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

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 ...

Snow is white, which makes it reflect about three quarters of the solar energy hitting it when covering the tundra ... Why, then, do people plant trees in the Arctic? Local people might want ...

Wildlife presenter Ferne Corrigan takes a look at the Arctic tundra and how plants and animals have adapted to live in this biome. Ferne describes the location of the tundra biomes around the ...

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

The study suggests one of the main drivers of the shift could be thawing permafrost, frozen ground that covers almost half of ...

That has mainly been due to carbon uptake from plants, which regulate ... But warming air temperatures in the Arctic are breaking down permafrost across the tundra, in some cases, severely.

Learn about hotspots in tundras and boreal forests that are releasing higher level of carbon dioxide, altering the carbon ...

In recent years, the Arctic tundra’s ability to emit less and absorb more carbon has taken a hit. A new analysis, which incorporated more data and better methods of examination, confirmed that the eco ...