The contrast between the declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd is correlated to different levels of ...
A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests, and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as ...
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 ...
The declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd use habitat with differing levels of climate change-related ...
Parts of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than they absorb, an international study published ...
Recent findings indicate that the Arctic's traditional role as a planetary cooling agent is faltering, with hotspots and ...
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.
A synthesis of carbon flux and wildfire emissions data from across the Arctic-boreal zone between 2001-2020 found that 34 ...
The Arctic tundra now releases more carbon than it naturally ... than carbon dioxide — as bacteria in the soil digest thawing plant matter. Meanwhile, rising Arctic temperatures are driving ...