The Arctic is heating up particularly fast as a result of global warming—with serious consequences. The widespread permafrost ...

The IAEA Environment Laboratories apply nuclear and isotopic techniques to better understand the carbon cycle, to evaluate the ocean’s capacity to store carbon ... around the world to collect samples ...

To understand exactly why the Arctic is struggling, the researchers involved in the study looked at the connection between the small, cold ocean and the runoff from Canada’s carbon-rich ...

We use climate models and oceanographic observations to study the biogeochemistry of the ocean, including its carbon cycle. Many of our studies look at the connection between the ocean carbon cycle ...

The distribution of sources and sinks at land and ocean surfaces is then optimized ... have a place in conceptual models of the global carbon cycle. A broader concept of a 'boundless carbon ...

“This is truly amazing,” said Max Holmes, deputy director of Massachusetts’s Woods Hole Research Center, who has studied the carbon cycle in ... the way to the Arctic Ocean.

After locking carbon dioxide in its frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic tundra is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by frequent wildfires that are turning it into a net source of ...

A separate study published on Dec. 3 suggested the Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free days as soon as 2027. About 1.5 trillion tons of carbon remains stored in permafrost, which is more ...

Arctic tundra, which for thousands of years was a net sink for atmospheric carbon, is now a net emitter ... Most areas in the seas around the Arctic Ocean had August sea surface temperatures ...

Modeling of Southern Ocean carbon and nutrient cycles under present and future climates; understanding how ocean circulation, the cryosphere and biology interact to ...

The 2024 Arctic report card is in, and the grade isn’t good. A new report just released by NOAA shows a rapidly melting Arctic has transitioned from a carbon sink to a carbon source.