A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...

For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone has acted as a critical carbon reservoir, locking away vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...

The world is adept at balancing the warming gases in its atmosphere, but anthropogenic climate change is challenging this ...

The end of 2024 marks the 24th year of the southwestern United States’s “megadrought”—a type of drought that often last ...

consisting of the treeless tundra, boreal forests, and wetlands in northern latitudes — and found that a shifting dynamic is underway. These environments were once mostly carbon dioxide sinks, meaning ...

NUNAVUT – Parts of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet ... The study says the region comprised of the boreal forest and the Arctic increased how much carbon it can hold in its ...

These areas are dominated by coniferous forest, generally have permafrost soils, and occur below the Arctic tundra latitudes. Boreal forest age with growth potential models have found Southwestern ...

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

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