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 ...

A seemingly minor trickle of groundwater beneath Alaska’s tundra is quietly releasing vast amounts of carbon into the ocean.

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

The declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd use habitat with differing levels of climate change-related shrub growth.

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

Carbon in the ocean can lead to higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the air, which contributes to climate change. The ...

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 ...

NGEE Arctic researchers have measured and modeled these key tundra processes during their time in Alaska, gaining valuable ... the larger landscape to the biome level. We then use machine learning ...

Alaska’s Arctic Ocean shores had been known to hold oil in some capacity since the 1800s. Native Alaskans would cut blocks of ...

We look at the worrying trend of carbon emissions from the Arctic tundra, the coldest region in the planet, and the geography of biomes. The extreme weather event is Cyclone Chido that struck ...