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

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

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

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

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

Scientists’ annual report card on the polar region finds that its vast tundra is releasing more CO2 than it stores, a ...

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

Taking place in Antarctica, as has been suggested by leakers ... but the dynamic of a frozen tundra would have to deal with some unavoidable differences. Judas and BioShock 4 comparisons may ...

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.

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

For millennia, Arctic ecosystems have stored more carbon dioxide than they release, but that has shifted as warming ...