But is that really happening? I am a biologist who focuses on the response of ecosystems to climate change including tundra ecosystems. For the past five years, my colleagues, students and I have ...

A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...

The Arctic tundra now releases more carbon than ... This shift is partly due to giant polar wildfires burning down tundra vegetation and all the carbon it's stored. It's also because of permafrost ...

wildfires in the Arctic have increased in burned area, intensity, and associated carbon emissions, playing a central role in the tundra's transition to a net carbon source. "By burning vegetation ...

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to the 2024 Arctic ...

Even though his recent years’ work in Arctic Alaska has been focused on plants, he said encountering willows and other woody plants covering what used to be open tundra west of the Dalton ...