Beyond explaining how the tundra regions have shifted from being net carbon sinks to net carbon emitters, the report card described a continuing long-term trend toward a warmer and wetter Arctic.
The region is warming much faster than the rest of the planet and releasing carbon from its thawing soil. Umair Irfan of Vox ...
Via Shutterstock) The Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs, according to the latest Arctic Report Card released by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
In the 2024 Arctic Report Card ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon dioxide sink, meaning that the landscape ...
After storing carbon dioxide in frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic tundra is being transformed by frequent wildfires into an overall source of carbon to the atmosphere, which is already absorbing ...
In the 2024 Arctic Report Card ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon dioxide sink, meaning that the landscape ...
“Particularly the large migratory herds, including the Western Arctic herd, have shown significant drops in population ...
This year's report revealed a crucial shift in northern landscapes: The Arctic tundra is no longer a net carbon sink, with its boreal forests pulling carbon dioxide from the sky. Now it's a net ...
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 ...