Among the most rapidly changing parts of our planet are the coldest landscapes near the top of the globe, just south of the ...
Find how thawing permafrost releases greenhouse gases, amplifying global warming and impacting climate change.
In an era of acceleratingclimate change, the Arctic is facing an alarming new risk: wildfires. Once considered too cold and ...
Thawing Arctic permafrost releases stored greenhouse gases, transforming the region from a carbon sink to a net source of ...
The top-down approach was more optimistic, suggesting that each year the northern permafrost region takes up 312–862 more teragrams of carbon per year as CO 2 than it releases. However ...
Scientists have discovered that the Arctic's vast permafrost areas are now releasing more greenhouse gases than they absorb, ...
The carbon dioxide budget of ecosystems in high-latitude regions may be altered by accelerated warming, shifts in the ...
A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide. Since ...
Failing to do so is likely to give global warming a helping hand – as warming thaws permafrost and releases more carbon and nitrogen from ancient stores, creating a continuous feedback loop.