Carbon in the Arctic resides mostly in the soil. There is more carbon in Arctic soils than in all the trees on Earth combined, and this includes every rainforest in the tropics. Growing trees in ...

Recent studies on Arctic plants have uncovered startling results on how environmental changes disturb ecosystems. Scientists discovered that variations in Arctic plant behavior could serve as ...

But, an international group of scientists argue that tree planting at high latitudes will accelerate, rather than decelerate, global warming. Why? Because soils in the Arctic and Subarctic store ...

“The Arctic holds a huge amount of the world’s carbon,” she ... In many areas shrubs and grasses are proliferating and shading out fragile flowering plants. The result is an overall decrease in plant ...

Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the Danish researchers, along with colleagues from the University of Cambridge, state that the Arctic is particularly unsuitable for afforestation. The ...

Planting millions of trees in the Arctic would make global warming worse, scientists have warned. Tree planting at high latitudes has been widely touted as a "cost-effective" way of reducing ...

and large-scale tree-planting projects in the Arctic have been championed by governments and corporations as a way to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. However, when trees are planted ...