‘Megadroughts’ Have Made Themselves Known in the 21st Century. They’re Going to Get Worse.
The end of 2024 marks the 24th year of the southwestern United States’s “megadrought”—a type of drought that often last ...
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A third of the Arctic is now a greenhouse gas emitter, Mass. study finds
A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...
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Caribou herds in Arctic Alaska trend in opposite directions
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 ...
Newly discovered algae species offers insights into plant evolution and UV protection
An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...
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Earth's Arctic region has flipped and now emits more carbon than it stores
For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone has acted as a critical carbon reservoir, locking away vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...
Exploring Animal Habitats: A Free 5-Day Unit Plan
Habitats are diverse environments where plants and animals live, providing natural resources that living things need to ...