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

A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ...

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

More than a third of the Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) – including the tundra, forests, and wetlands around the Arctic Circle – is pushing out carbon rather than sucking it up, according to new research ...

Parts of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than they absorb, an international study published ...

Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, a new report shows.

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic ...

Little wonder the poles can seem timeless, places of desolate beauty – tundra and rock in the north, and wind and ice in the ...

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic ...

The polar regions are the coldest places on Earth. During the summer, the poles receive 24 hours of sunlight, but during the winter the sun is rarely visible. Animals that inhabit nature’s freezers ...