Arctic tundra now emitting more carbon gases than it absorbs, annual report says
For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the case no more, according to an annual report issued on Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Fires, intensified by climate change, release carbon trapped in soil and plants. More frequent infernos have now transformed ...
Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the region to release more carbon dioxide than its plants remove, probably for ...
NOAA scientists have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S. government science itself faces an uncertain ...
Arctic Report Card, 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, describe the rapid changes they’re witnessing across the Arctic and the ...
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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The Arctic just hit an unfortunate climate milestoneThe last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a number of new milestones ...
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