Learn about hotspots in tundras and boreal forests that are releasing higher level of carbon dioxide, altering the carbon ...

After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, regional hotspots and increasingly frequent wildfires in the ...

A new study suggests regions of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than they absorb, upending a millennia-old trend.

Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a new study. This publicly available forty-year global quantitative inventory ...

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia, the Russian Far East and Canada, climate ...

The extensive northern forests of Canada, Alaska and Siberia are about to fundamentally change their tree density because of ...

Abstract: Sled-based side-looking C-band radar profiles were collected around Fairbanks, Alaska, in March 2023 during the NASA SnowEx campaign to improve the conceptual understanding of C-band radar ...

“From an ecological perspective, the increase in fire activity in boreal forests, especially in the northern regions of the world, has raised grave concerns about the health and function of ...

Across much of the world, planting more trees means more carbon is stored, and global warming is reduced. That’s the thinking behind recent proposals to plant more trees in Alaska, Greenland and ...

Live trees have the highest carbon density, followed by soils and the forest floor…The U.S Forest Service reports that the nation’s forests and forest products offset nearly 16 percent of ...