A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide. Since ...

In the remote Siberian tundra, the ground itself has begun to explode. Since 2014, more than 20 mysterious craters, each ...

Boreal forests and Arctic tundra are underlain by millions of square kilometers of permafrost, and scientists are still ...

The normally tree-free tundra already stores a vast resource of carbon within its soil. The researchers say any new forests ...

A new study highlights the importance of caribou and muskoxen to the greening Arctic tundra, linking grazing with plant phenology and abundance in the Arctic tundra. The story of Arctic greening has ...

As climate change enables the planting of trees further north, initiatives to establish forests in Arctic regions have gained ...

An international group of researchers says it would accelerate not decelerate climate change. The post Why planting trees in ...

“Soils in the Arctic store more carbon than all vegetation on Earth ... “This happens both directly, by keeping tundra ...

Ecologist Christina Biasi is exploring the conditions under which tiny organisms contribute to permafrost soils emitting ...

Permafrost soils, however, were long considered to be negligible ... is outgassed at very high rates from special permafrost ...

native to the Arctic and sub-Arctic. These herbivore species devour plant communities and keep the Tundra landscape open, ...