BEST-BACKGROUNDS / shutterstock / NASA The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the global average since 1979. Svalbard,
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In the Arctic, planting more trees actually makes the world warmer
Sergey and Marina Pyataev / shutterstock Across much of the world, planting more trees means more carbon is stored, and
Zombie fires in the Arctic smoulder underground and refuse to die – what’s causing them?
Fire in boggy peat-based tundra in Alaska. Western Arctic National Parklands / flickr So-called “zombie fires” in the peatlands of
The melting Arctic is a crime scene. The microbes I study have long warned us of this catastrophe – but they are also driving it
The Arctic’s climate is warming at least four times faster than the global average, causing irrevocable changes to this vast