With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an ...

A recent study has found that climate change is altering Arctic plant composition, with some species declining in response to ...

Department officials said the original spruce trees from the 1800s are all gone, but their offspring are standing high today, ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant life in the Arctic. A new study in Nature shows how one of the most fragile ecosystems ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

Wildlife presenter Ferne Corrigan takes a look at the Arctic tundra and how plants and animals have adapted to live in this biome. Ferne describes the location of the tundra biomes around the ...

Landscape fires trigger soil erosion processes: the tundra's upper cover, being left without plant protection, warms up faster and deeper, which leads to a significant degradation of the permafrost.

Each biome has characteristics that make it unique, for example Alaska is a type of tundra. The animals and plants have to be really tough to survive the freezing conditions. Deserts are dry and ...