Healthy green vegetation absorbs visible light but reflects the ... nights to collect extensive carbon dioxide measurements near plants and soil in 11 Arctic tundra ecosystems, including in Alaska, ...

Specific topics to be addressed include: Spatial and temporal patterns in Arctic tundra and boreal forest greening versus browning · What has caused the change from widespread, long-term greening to ...

This year, wildfires raging across the tundra also added to the region ... scientists observed the second most potent Arctic greening event on record this year. These plants suck up carbon ...

Accomplishing this will be hard at a time when some world powers are hampering research in the region. Scientists need to ...

Another alarming side effect of a greening Arctic is rapidly thawing permafrost. As permafrost — the “permanently” frozen soil beneath the tundra — warms and thaws, it can cause the ground ...

"Our new data is the strongest confirmation yet that the ice in the center of the island vanished and was replaced by a tundra ecosystem ... an impeccably preserved Arctic poppy seed.

The Arctic is changing ... Sea are 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit above the average. Vegetation and greening is taking over tundra, accompanying record permafrost melting. One of the biggest changes ...

Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’. The arctic tundra encircles the North Pole, extending from the ...