Satellite image of the forest fires in Siberia. Image: NASA/MODIS The number and intensity of wildfires currently raging north of the Arctic Circle are leading to high carbon emissions – the third highest for the Arctic in the month of June since 2003. From...
Fire in boggy peat-based tundra in Alaska. Western Arctic National Parklands / flickr By Sebastian Wieczorek, Eoin O’Sullivan and Kieran Mulchrone, University College Cork So-called “zombie fires” in the peatlands of Alaska, Canada and Siberia disappear from the...
The Kolyma in eastern Siberia is frozen to a depth of several meters for more than eight months of the year. When the ice melts in June, huge quantities of sediment and organic material are released into the Arctic Ocean. Photo: Norman Kuring/NASA’s Ocean Color...
Landscape of the Alaskan lowlands north of the Brooks Range. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service A study lifts the veil on the evolutionary origins of the tundra, a vast Arctic biome shaped by falling temperatures and rising grounds. Grasslands dotted with dwarf...
Over the past three years, massive fires in parts from Siberia to the Arctic coast have made broad headlines. A now-published study shows that they are not simply due to warmer temperatures, but a number of factors have caused and driven the fires. Photo: NASA Anyone...
