A seemingly minor trickle of groundwater beneath Alaska’s tundra is quietly releasing vast amounts of ... this carbon is no longer locked away but instead becomes part of the natural carbon cycle. The ...

Alaska, the Nordic countries, and Canada, has been accumulating carbon for thousands of years, helping cool the Earth’s atmosphere. In a warming world, the researchers say that the carbon cycle ...

The researchers wanted to know how the constant breathing of the Earth — in other words, the cycle of CO2 uptake and ... and central Alaska. Carbon sources are becoming especially prevalent in tundra ...

Worldwide, roughly twice the amount of the heat-trapping carbon now ... in northwestern Alaska. The ponds act as a heat source that melts the permafrost, inundates tundra vegetation and changes ...

It’s a vicious cycle. Rising temperatures ... For millennia, the Arctic tundra has helped stabilize global temperatures by storing carbon in the frozen ground. Wildfires have changed that ...

One recent turning point for the region involves its carbon footprint ... permafrost across the tundra, in some cases, severely. The Arctic report, for example, showed Alaskan permafrost ...

completing the carbon cycle. The tundra, a frozen treeless Arctic biome with long dark winters and short summers, alters the balance of this cycle. While it doesn’t have the dense, fast-growing ...

But the Arctic has warmed up at a faster rate than the planet as a whole during that period and its tundra is now releasing more carbon dioxide than it stores ... a climate scientist at the University ...

But as fossil fuel emissions heat the planet, balmier air temperatures are thawing Arctic tundra, activating carbon ... including for scientists assessing the carbon cycle.

Researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been crisscrossing the Alaskan tundra for ... could initiate carbon loss and potentially intensify the warming ...

With the help of our interpreters, we were able to learn about the unique challenges of local cultivation, how communities cycle ... tundra of Southwest Alaska, an ecosystem that is traditionally less ...

Time in the Alaskan ... carbon that has been stored for centuries within frozen plants, animals, and other organic matter. That, in turn, is devoured by methane-emitting microbes. In a 2023 study, ...