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 ...
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Arctic Tundra Shifts to Source of Climate Pollution, According to New Report Card
NOAA scientists and affiliated researchers have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S. government science ...
The Arctic tundra has transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, report finds
This year registered the second-highest wildfire emissions north of the Arctic Circle. When accounting for emissions from ...
Arctic Is Now Releasing Carbon Dioxide Instead Of Storing It, According To NOAA
The Arctic is now a carbon source, instead of a carbon sink, according to a new report released by NOAA. Warming temperatures ...
Thawing Tundra Is Now a Carbon Source in Fast-Warming Arctic
Scientists’ annual report card on the polar region finds that its vast tundra is releasing more CO2 than it stores, a ...
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Arctic tundra is now warming the world instead of cooling it
The news that the frigid Arctic tundra ringing the polar region has switched from being a net absorber, or "sink," of ...
The Arctic just hit an unfortunate climate milestone
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The Arctic just hit an unfortunate climate milestone on Dec 11 ...
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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 ...
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A Flip in the Arctic Tundra: It's Now a Carbon Dioxide Source
The Arctic tundra is no longer the carbon sink it once was. "The tundra, which is experiencing warming and increased wildfire ...
The Arctic just got a dire climate report card—and under Trump things could get much worse
NOAA scientists have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S. government science itself faces an uncertain ...
Public Radio International23h
Arctic carbon tipping point reached?
The Arctic tundra is now releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than it stores. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Twila Moon, deputy director of science at the National Snow and Ice Data ...
'If we stop now, they're gone forever': The Nordic countries breeding Arctic foxes
Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this ...