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

Increasingly frequent and severe wildfires have become a yearly concern for many Arctic communities, and a chapter of a new U ...

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

The news that the frigid Arctic tundra ringing the polar region has switched from being a net absorber, or "sink," of ...

For millennia, Arctic ecosystems have stored more carbon dioxide than they release, but that has shifted as warming ...

The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren't one of the 4 million people who live there.

The Arctic tundra has historically helped reduce global emissions. But rising temperatures and wildfires in the region are ...

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

This is yet one more sign, predicted by scientists, of the consequences of inadequately reducing fossil fuel pollution,” said ...

Scientists’ annual report card on the polar region finds that its vast tundra is releasing more CO2 than it stores, a ...

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

After locking carbon dioxide in its frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic tundra is undergoing a dramatic transformation, ...