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 ...

Permafrost serves as an enormous carbon reservoir, containing about 1,500 billion tons of organic carbon. To put this into ...

The elder Zimov first figured out that permafrost stores far more carbon than scientists once thought. Some of it is now escaping as temperatures rise. Sergey Zimov, an ecologist by training ...

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

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

If warming continues, how will melting permafrost transform landscapes? Will forest grow in place of tundra? Will wetlands rise where forests once grew? And will these changes affect the carbon ...

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 ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major step toward recreating traits of the extinct woolly mammoth, offering new ...