The Arctic is rapidly changing from the climate crisis, with no "new normal," scientists warn. Wildfires and permafrost thaw are making the tundra emit more carbon than it absorbs. From beaver ...

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

Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands ... "This is something that impacts everyone." Permafrost is full of carbon that has been locked away by plants over millennia.

The Arctic is rapidly changing from the climate crisis, with no "new normal," scientists warn. Wildfires and permafrost thaw are making the tundra emit more carbon than it absorbs. From beaver ...

Northern permafrost has been estimated to hold about twice as much carbon as there is in the atmosphere. Tundra describes the Arctic’s tree-less plains, where shrubs, grasses, and mosses grow ...

Wildfire emissions and thawing permafrost have contributed to changes in the Arctic’s tundra, scientists say (NASA/Katie Jepson) “We’ve done some other estimates that say that the Arctic ...

(Photo provided by the National Park Service) For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the case no more, according to ...

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

From Alaska to Siberia, the Arctic is changing so rapidly that there is no "normal" there now, scientists warn. The consequences reach across the globe. The Arctic tundra now releases more carbon ...