Federal fire officials determined that the East Fork Fire was no longer a threat to lower Yukon River villages as of June 25, 2022. (Bureau of Land Management) In June, the largest tundra fire the ...

The news that the frigid Arctic tundra ringing the polar region has switched from being a net absorber, or "sink," of planet-warming greenhouse gases to a net emitter, or "source," indicates the ...

Climate change is warming the Arctic tundra about four times faster than the rest of the planet. Now, a study suggests that rising temperatures will spur underground microbes there to produce more ...

FAIRBANKS — The July 2007 tundra fire near the Anaktuvuk River was the largest such ever recorded, but that wasn’t the only thing that made it noteworthy. According to a new study published in the ...

Chunks of carbon-rich frozen soil, or permafrost, undergird much of the Arctic tundra. This perpetually frozen layer sequesters carbon from the atmosphere, sometimes storing it for tens of thousands ...

Modelling climate change over a 500 year period shows that much of the boreal forest, the Earth's northernmost forests and most significant provider of carbon storage and clean water, could be ...

Jamie Sayen of Stratford is author of “You Had a Job for Life,” an oral history of the Groveton paper mill. Mount Washington’s summit region, an enchanting, wild, dangerous world, is home to the ...

The planet experienced a cascade of unprecedented weather events in 2025, marking another year where reality outpaced even ...

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 ...

For weeks, wildfires have raged across Alaska’s vast Southwest region — threatening villages, burning up hundreds of thousands of acres and pushing smoke far across the state. Fire on the Southwest ...

La JollaLa Jolla — New research by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Rochester eases long-standing fears that thawing Arctic permafrost could belch out mass amounts of ...

"Previously people had thought that the tundra might be colonised by trees from the boreal forest to the south as the Arctic climate warms, a process that would take centuries. But what we've found is ...