According to NOAA's report, wildfires in the Arctic have increased in burned area, intensity, and associated carbon emissions ...

The Arctic is rapidly changing from the climate crisis, with no "new normal," scientists warn.; Wildfires and permafrost thaw ...

Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands of years, has now become a source of planet-warming pollution. ... Massachusetts, signals a dramatic shift in this Arctic ecosystem, ...

The tundra, a frozen treeless Arctic biome with long dark winters and short summers, alters the balance of this cycle. While it doesn’t have the dense, fast-growing biomass of a tropical ...

A focus of the latest Arctic evaluation was the effects of warmer weather and wildfires on the tundra, a far-northern biome that's typically known for extreme cold, little precipitation and a ...

The alpine tundra biome is also a cold climate region with temperatures averaging below freezing at night. This area receives more precipitation yearly than the Arctic tundra; the average annual ...

The tundra biome is the coldest and one of the largest ecosystems on Earth. It covers about one-fifth of the land on the planet, primarily in the Arctic circle but also in Antarctica as well as a ...

Environment Arctic tundra is now a source – not a sink – of carbon emissions. For millennia, Arctic ecosystems have stored more carbon dioxide than they release, but that has shifted as ...

Arctic Ecosystems NPR News Science Correspondent Richard Harris reports that scientists have been surprised by a rapid change in the Arctic Tundra. When the Arctic air warmed up in the 1980s, this ...

Arctic tundra, Alaska’s Seward Peninsula. ... signals a dramatic shift in this Arctic ecosystem, which could have widespread implications for the global climate. ...

Incorporating the differences in tundra ecosystems across the pan-Arctic will result in a first-ever Earth-scale model that comprehensively portrays change in the northernmost latitudes of the planet.

The Arctic tundra has historically helped reduce global emissions. But rising temperatures and wildfires in the region are changing that, scientists say. Arctic tundra becoming a source of carbon ...