When accounting for emissions from these wildfires, the report card found that the Arctic tundra has shifted from storing carbon to being a source of carbon emissions to the atmosphere.

Beyond explaining how the tundra regions have shifted from being net carbon sinks to net carbon emitters, the report card described a continuing long-term trend toward a warmer and wetter Arctic.

The region is warming much faster than the rest of the planet and releasing carbon from its thawing soil. Umair Irfan of Vox ...

In the 2024 Arctic Report Card ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon dioxide sink, meaning that the landscape ...

“Particularly the large migratory herds, including the Western Arctic herd, have shown significant drops in population ...

After storing carbon dioxide in frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic tundra is being transformed by frequent wildfires into an overall source of carbon to the atmosphere, which is already absorbing ...

In the 2024 Arctic Report Card ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon dioxide sink, meaning that the landscape ...

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 an annual report ...