Photosynthesising microbes in soil may increase their activity as temperatures rise, offsetting some of the carbon emissions ...

The widespread permafrost in this region, where soils currently store twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, is thawing. Scientists are using increasingly detailed climate models to investigate ...

Increasing wildfires globally release massive carbon emissions, impacting natural carbon sinks and contributing to global ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Forget the damage US President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” will do to the international trade ...

Arctic permafrost contains twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. But the researchers found that the thawings—which expel stores of carbon dioxide sequestered deep in frozen vegetation—were not ...

There are larger environmental consequences for the region. Permafrost stores carbon and methane, and once it melts it releases these into the atmosphere, This, in turn, will aggravate the ...

The dire wolf is no longer extinct. Meet the world’s first de-extinct animals. The science of de-extinction is to analyze the ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major ...

Svalbard is the fastest warming place in the world, and even within the Arctic. Leaving as little trace as possible is a ...

Mountains, which cover 33 million sq km of the Earth’s surface, are crucial for sustaining life on the planet. For instance, around 2 billion people downstream depend on mountains for freshwater resou ...

Melissa Ward Jones, a Research Assistant Professor at the Water and Environmental Research Center (WERC) of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, discusses research focused on understanding the ...