The contrast between the declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd is correlated to different levels of ...

Recent findings indicate that the Arctic's traditional role as a planetary cooling agent is faltering, with hotspots and ...

Parts of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than they absorb, an international study published ...

Across much of the world, planting more trees means more carbon is stored, and global warming is reduced. That’s the thinking behind recent proposals to plant more trees in Alaska, Greenland and ...

Wildlife presenter Ferne Corrigan takes a look at the Arctic tundra and how plants and animals have adapted to live in this biome. Ferne describes the location of the tundra biomes around the ...

Snow is white, which makes it reflect about three quarters of the solar energy hitting it when covering the tundra ... Why, then, do people plant trees in the Arctic? Local people might want ...

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as ...

In recent years, the Arctic tundra’s ability to emit less and absorb more carbon has taken a hit. A new analysis, which incorporated more data and better methods of examination, confirmed that the eco ...

The Arctic tundra, a critical “carbon sink” for thousands ... including wildfires, plant and microbial changes, and thawing permafrost. Permafrost is ground that is permanently frozen, which ...

Shorter snow seasons can challenge plants and animals that depend on ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon ...