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.
For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the ...
The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren't one of the 4 million people who live there.
The Arctic tundra has historically helped reduce global emissions. But rising temperatures and wildfires in the region are ...
NOAA scientists have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S. government science itself faces an uncertain ...
After locking carbon dioxide in its frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic tundra is undergoing a dramatic transformation, ...
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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