Arctic tundra plants must adapt to the cold, dark conditions of the tundra as the sun does not rise during the winter months. These plants experience brief growth periods during summer when ...

With a shorter sea ice season, the dark ocean surface is exposed and ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon ...

With a shorter sea ice season, the dark ocean surface is exposed and ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon ...

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Those dark surfaces reflect less radiation back ... sea ice extents have decreased about 50% since the 1980s. Meanwhile, the Arctic tundra was the second-greenest since records began in 2000 ...

Those dark surfaces reflect less radiation back ... sea ice extents have decreased about 50% since the 1980s. Meanwhile, the Arctic tundra was the second-greenest since records began in 2000 ...

With a shorter sea ice season, the dark ocean surface is exposed and ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon ...

As it shrinks, more of the sun’s energy is absorbed by the dark ocean, which accelerates ... For thousands of years, the shrubby landscape of the Arctic tundra stored carbon, but wildfires ...

A focus of the latest Arctic evaluation was the effects of warmer weather and wildfires on the tundra, a far-northern biome that's typically known for extreme cold, little precipitation and a ...

Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands of years, has now become a source of planet-warming pollution. As wildfires increase and hotter temperatures melt long-frozen ground ...