The tundra keeps burning and it’s transforming the Arctic
Fires, intensified by climate change, release carbon trapped in soil and plants. More frequent infernos have now transformed the tundra into a net source of carbon dioxide emissions. It’s a dramatic shift for the Arctic, and one that will make the planet even hotter.
NOAA Report Finds Arctic Tundra Becoming Source of Carbon Dioxide Emissions
The transition of the Arctic from a carbon sink to a carbon source is one of the dramatic changes in the Arctic that are documented in NOAA’s 2024 Arctic Report Card. Climatic shifts are forcing plants, wildlife and the people that depend on them to rapidly adapt to a warmer, wetter and less certain world.
Carbon sinks like the Arctic play crucial roles in regulating the planet’s climate. The region also functions as a heat sink for the planet, losing more heat to space than it absorbs from the sun’s ...
NOAA scientists have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S. government science itself faces an uncertain ...
The last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a number of new milestones in ...
Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this ...
Now, as the Arctic climate warms at rates up to four times faster than the planet's average, snow is disappearing sooner in ...
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