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

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

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

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

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

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

The shift from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it could have widespread implications for climate change, according to ...

Animal cruelty involves inflicting harm, injuring, or killing an animal. The cruelty can be intentional, such as kicking, burning, stabbing, beating, or shooting; or it can involve neglect, such as ...

The transition of the Arctic from a carbon sink to a carbon source is one of the dramatic changes in the Arctic that are ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — The distribution of traditional wild food sources in the Republic of Sakha could change significantly, affecting the diets and incomes of Indigenous rural communities who depend ...

Dec. 10, 2024 — Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency could remain the same or even increase at high elevations. That's bad ...