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

Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the Arctic region to release more carbon dioxide and methane than its plants remove.

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

Simultaneously, the impacts of climate change are growing, increasing Arctic wildfires, affecting buildings and roads as ...

Rising temperatures, increasing precipitation, thawing permafrost and melting ice are pushing the Arctic outside its ...

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

The Arctic is now a carbon source, instead of a carbon sink, according to a new report released by NOAA. Warming temperatures ...

For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the ...

Arctic Report Card, 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, describe the rapid changes they’re witnessing across the Arctic and the ...

The last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a number of new milestones in ...

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

The Arctic tundra is now releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than it stores. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Twila Moon, deputy director of science at the National Snow and Ice Data ...