An international team led by Woodwell Climate Research Center found that a third (34%) of the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ ... growing carbon footprint in this region," said Dr. Anna Virkkala ...

Boreal regions are also underlain by vast swaths of permafrost – continuously frozen ground – which contains huge amounts of carbon. There is now around twice as much carbon in permafrost as ...

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

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

Map of areas that experienced vegetation climate stress in the Arctic-boreal region between 1997-2020 as detected by multiple variables from the satellite record. Watts et al., 2025, Geophysical ...

Animation of terrestrial CO 2 fluxes in the Arctic-boreal zone by month ... to account for fire's growing carbon footprint in this region," said Dr. Anna Virkkala, a research scientist at the ...

Map of areas that experienced ecosystem climate stress in the Arctic-boreal region between 1997-2020 as detected by multiple variables including satellite data and long-term temperature records.

An international team led by Woodwell Climate Research Center found that a third (34 percent) of the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ ... carbon footprint in this region,” said Dr. Anna Virkkala ...