PETERSBURG, June 4. /TASS/. The permafrost’s thawing in the tundra causes gradual, unobvious migration of pollutants into the soil’s upper layers thus threatening the Arctic territories ...

In recent years, the Arctic tundra’s ability to emit less and absorb more carbon has taken a hit. A new analysis, which incorporated more data and better methods of examination, confirmed that the eco ...

(Photo provided by the National Park Service) For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the case no more, according to ...

Soils are heavily leached, and permafrost underlies much of the soil ... and low-growing perennial shrubs. The tundra biome contains only about 3% of the world’s flora. Up to 60% of the flora ...

Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the Arctic region to release more carbon dioxide and methane than its plants remove. The tundra is now a global carbon emitter. Cladonia stellaris ...

The climate in the tundra biomes is extremely cold - I mean seriously ... mean that one of the main features of the environment is permafrost which, as the name suggests, means permanently frozen ...