Lightning strikes in the Arctic have surged in recent years, raising alarms among scientists about their role in wildfires, ...

The CISCE class 9 Environmental Science syllabus 2025-26 focuses on teaching students the basic concepts in Environmental Science, which is an important subject for further classes. The goal of this ...

Rapid climate change is upending established plant diversity and growth patterns in the Arctic, with species blooming in some areas and declining in others, suggests a study published today in the ...

In the tundra, there’s no clear winner Scientists studying plants in one of the most extreme environments on Earth say the Arctic is indeed changing under the impact of global warming—but not in a ...

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests, and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as ...

Climate change has already begun to instigate environment-altering effects around the world, and the latest evidence is cropping up in arctic regions that are emitting increasing amounts of carbon ...

In a warming world, the researchers say that the carbon cycle in the region is beginning to change and needs better monitoring. Anna Virkkala, the lead author of the study, said: “There is a ...

This month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual Arctic Report Card. It contained sobering news about the state of the tundra. NOAA reported that after storing ...

Why Arctic tundra is emitting more carbon than it absorbs, for first time in many millennia In recent years, the Arctic tundra’s ability to emit less and absorb more carbon has taken a hit. A new ...

The Arctic tundra has shifted from storing carbon in the soil to becoming a carbon dioxide source, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its partner researchers concluded ...