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 ...

Santa may be looking for a new species to pull his sleigh as climate change is likely to cause declines in reindeer ...

Research from ancient sediment cores indicates that a warming climate could make the world's arctic tundra far more susceptible to fires than previously thought. The findings are important given 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 ...

Local reindeer grazing history is an important determinant in the response of an ecosystem’s carbon sink to climate warming, say researchers. The significance of reindeer grazing history to tundra ...

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 ...

Research from ancient sediment cores indicates that a warming climate could make the world’s arctic tundra far more susceptible to fires than previously thought. The findings are important given the ...

I awoke staring up at the stretched plastic ceiling and wooden skeleton of our weatherized tent; an older model, its timber framing is the inspiration for the somewhat startling name “splinterhaven” ...

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 ...