After locking carbon dioxide in its frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic tundra is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by frequent wildfires that are turning it into a net source of ...

Land-based carbon sinks help slow global warming by absorbing excess heat-trapping CO2 emissions. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Arctic tundra has historically helped reduce global emissions. But rising temperatures and wildfires in the region are changing that, scientists say.

The thawing of permafrost — a jumble of soil, rocks and sediment held together ... For thousands of years, the shrubby landscape of the Arctic tundra stored carbon, but wildfires and thawing ...

As soils like the ones at Duvanny Yar soften ... I’d like permission to put three dams on every other stream in the Arctic tundra,” Tape said. “That’s what this could be like.” ...

Climate change and greenhouse gas emission in Arctic tundra: the role of vegetation change on CO2 and CH4 fluxes (NERC funded PhD studentship, jointly supervised with Donatella Zona). Mobilisation and ...

The coastal geosystems' soil cover on islands in the Russian Arctic's Western sector remains the least studied. Unlike the tundra zone's subarctic landscapes, located mainly on the mainland ...

The arctic tundra encircles the North Pole ... So it’s root system is shallow to cope with the thin and frozen soil and the plants grow closely together to provide warmth and shelter from ...