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

These areas are dominated by coniferous forest, generally have permafrost soils, and occur below the Arctic tundra latitudes. Boreal forest age with growth potential models have found Southwestern ...

For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone has acted as a critical carbon reservoir, locking away vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...

After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, regional hotspots and increasingly frequent wildfires in the ...

The world is adept at balancing the warming gases in its atmosphere, but anthropogenic climate change is challenging this ...

Learn about hotspots in tundras and boreal forests that are releasing higher level of carbon dioxide, altering the carbon balance in the world's coldest regions.

Instead, as the temperature drops, a different set of species may arrive from the boreal forests and Arctic tundra of the far ...

NorEcoFun group studies biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in Northern ecosystems – boreal forest and tundra. We focus on plant communities, which form the foundation of ecosystems. This ...

The study suggests one of the main drivers of the shift could be thawing permafrost, frozen ground that covers almost half of Canada’s land mass and in some areas has remained below zero C for hundred ...