The Arctic is rapidly changing from the climate crisis, with no "new normal," scientists warn. Wildfires and permafrost thaw are making the tundra emit more carbon than it absorbs. From beaver ...
A federal judge ruled that regulators reasonably concluded a combination of snow cover, frozen soil and operational limits ...
A new special issue of more than 20 papers—published in the open access journal Arctic Science—presents findings from 30 years of research and monitoring by the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), ...
Aims For informed predictions on the sensitivity of Arctic tundra landscape to permafrost thaw, we aimed to investigate the distribution pattern of near-surface ground ice and its influencing factors ...
Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...
On this side of the Atlantic, people mostly associate reindeer with Christmas and Santa’s sleigh. However, people who live in ...
Global warming is changing the Arctic by causing permafrost thaw, glacier melt, droughts, fires and changes in vegetation. These developments are strongly linked to the energy exchange between land ...