Fires, intensified by climate change, release carbon trapped in soil and plants. More frequent infernos have now transformed ...

The transition of the Arctic from a carbon sink to a carbon source is one of the dramatic changes in the Arctic that are ...

NOAA scientists and affiliated researchers have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S. government science ...

Plant ecology is a sub-discipline of ecology focussed on the distribution and abundance of plants, and their interactions with the biotic and abiotic environment. Understanding how global changes ...

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

Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the region to release more carbon dioxide than its plants remove, probably for ...

The shift from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it could have widespread implications for climate change, according to ...

Arctic tundra is releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as hotter temperatures melt frozen ground and wildfires ...

Greening sounds good compared to deforestation, but in the Arctic, the expansion of plant life amplifies dangerous feedback ...

Back on November 1st, an Emperor penguin was found on a popular beach in Australia, 2,100 miles away from his home in Antarctica. The video shocked people and left us all wondering how in the ...

The Arctic is warming faster than any other area of the planet. How environmental change affects the landscape, weather ...