Communications Earth & Environment, 16 January 2025
Today’s rapidly rising temperatures in the Arctic are changing the composition of its ecosystems, causing the Arctic to become greener. In turn, this affects the uptake of carbon through photosynthesis, which may potentially offset some of the CO2 released from thawing permafrost. Using sediment cores retrieved from a fjord in western Svalbard, researchers were able to detect the rapid expansion of tundra ecosystem across the region since 1900. The timing of greening mirrors the loss of summer sea ice and glacier retreat in the region, highlighting the widespread impacts of global warming and cryosphere loss on ecology and landscape evolution.
Nature Communications, 1 April 2026 A growing network of meltwater lakes along the edge of…
Nature Communications, 6 April 2026 Arctic warming increases the amount of iron draining out of…
Nature Climate Change, 30 March 2026 Rising temperatures increase the frequency of retrogressive thaw slumps…
Nature Communications, 30 March 2026 Surface melting in Antarctica is projected to increase this century,…
Permafrost is a critical component of the global climate system because its thaw releases vast…
Communications Earth & Environment, 27 March 2026 The potential collapse of the major system of…