Arctic Tundra: Biomes, Climate, and Wildlife. Posted: April 26, 2025 | Last updated: April 26, 2025. Provides an introduction to Earth's biomes, explaining how they are communities of living ...

Behold the tundra biome. Characterized by extremely cold temperatures and treeless, frozen landscapes, the species here are marvels at adapting to the harsh climate.

According to NOAA's report, wildfires in the Arctic have increased in burned area, intensity, and associated carbon emissions ...

Arctic permafrost is a vast repository, storing an estimated 1,700 billion metric tons of carbon. That’s over 50 times more than all the carbon released as global fossil fuel emissions in 2019.

For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the case no more, according to an annual report issued on Tuesday by the ...

But warming air temperatures in the Arctic are breaking down permafrost across the tundra, in some cases, severely. The Arctic report, for example, showed Alaskan permafrost temperatures in 2024 ...

The Arctic tundra is warming up and that's causing long-frozen ground to melt as well as an increase in wildfires. The region is "now emitting more carbon that it stores, which will worsen climate ...

The Arctic is rapidly changing from the climate crisis, with no "new normal," scientists warn. Wildfires and permafrost thaw are making the tundra emit more carbon than it absorbs. From beaver ...

The Arctic tundra has historically helped reduce global emissions. But rising temperatures and wildfires in the region are changing that, scientists say. Arctic tundra becoming a source of carbon ...