The tundra keeps burning and it’s transforming the Arctic
Fires, intensified by climate change, release carbon trapped in soil and plants. More frequent infernos have now transformed the tundra into a net source of carbon dioxide emissions. It’s a dramatic shift for the Arctic, and one that will make the planet even hotter.
Arctic tundra now emitting more carbon gases than it absorbs, annual report says
For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the case no more, according to an annual report issued on Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA scientists have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S. government science itself faces an uncertain ...
Now, as the Arctic climate warms at rates up to four times faster than the planet's average, snow is disappearing sooner in ...
Rising temperatures, increasing precipitation, thawing permafrost and melting ice are pushing the Arctic outside its ...
Arctic Report Card, 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, describe the rapid changes they’re witnessing across the Arctic and the ...
The last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a number of new milestones in ...
NOAA released its annual Arctic Report Card today. Notably, this year gave evidence the Arctic was a net carbon source rather ...
Rising temperatures, increasing precipitation, thawing permafrost and melting ice are pushing the Arctic outside its ...
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