Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

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

The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to the 2024 Arctic ...

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 ...

The end of 2024 marks the 24th year of the southwestern United States’s “megadrought”—a type of drought that often last ...

A new study suggests regions of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet ... Arctic increased how much carbon it can hold in its plants and soils from 2001 to 2020, about a third of the ...

Habitats are diverse environments where plants and animals live, providing natural resources that living things need to ...

NUNAVUT – Parts of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet ... the Arctic increased how much carbon it can hold in its plants and soils from 2001 to 2020. The uptake appeared to take ...

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests, and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as global heating ends thousands of years of carbon storage in parts of the ...

For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone has acted as a critical carbon reservoir, locking away vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...