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

Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a ...

Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a new study. This publicly available forty-year global quantitative inventory ...

They calculated anomalies in rainfall and evapotranspiration—water evaporation from soil and plants—and their ... in the past forty years, boreal and tropical forests appeared to withstand ...

Recent findings indicate that the Arctic's traditional role as a planetary cooling agent is faltering, with hotspots and ...

Parts of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than they absorb, an international study published ...

The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia, the Russian Far East and Canada, climate ...

Researcher Kristy Ferraro is trying to figure out how caribou and moose impact the environment when they're gone and when ...

Barren yet beautiful, the moonscapes of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert are an alluring world of steppes, boreal forest, sand and rock. Here, visitors can bookend their days with yoga and Buddhist teachings, ...

Research is revealing how climate change is driving the Arctic-boreal zone's shift from a carbon sink to a carbon source.