The contrast between the declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd is correlated to different levels of ...

A focus of the latest Arctic evaluation was the effects of warmer weather and wildfires on the tundra, a far-northern biome that's typically ... showed Alaskan permafrost temperatures in 2024 ...

Reindeer live in the Arctic tundra (a frigid treeless plain) and the northern boreal woodlands that border the tundra. This type of biome is found in Alaska, Canada’s Northern Coast and islands ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Eight thousand troops perform military exercises like hauling artillery, deploying attack helicopters, and parachuting into Alaska's Arctic tundra. Here's a closer ...

From Alaska to Siberia, the Arctic is changing so rapidly that there is no "normal" there now, scientists warn. The consequences reach across the globe. The Arctic tundra now releases more carbon ...

But now we’re near the Arctic Circle in Alaska ... Some of the world’s main biomes include rainforest, desert, savannah, grassland, woodland and tundra. Each biome has characteristics that ...

Smoke from the Noatak Grand Canyon Fire, burning in tundra in Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve, rises into the air on June 8, 2012. Wildfires, which are becoming more intense in Arctic regions ...

Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder, and Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks The Arctic ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or ...

"Our observations now show that the Arctic tundra, which is experiencing warming ... gases -- through microbial decomposition. In 2024, Alaska recorded its second-warmest permafrost temperatures ...