This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature.

Rapid climate change is upending plant communities in the Arctic, with species flourishing in some areas and declining in others, according to a new study in Nature. The decades-long investigation, ...

More warmth, more plants: Plant diversity tended to be greater in warmer areas and the southern Arctic. For every 2 C increase in temperature, an additional species was typically found. However, ...

Arctic plants are able to migrate the distances needed to survive changes to the climate, scientists have suggested. Habitats are expected to shift further north as the planet warms, and plants' ...

Scientists studying Arctic plants say the ecosystems that host life in some of the most inhospitable reaches of the planet are changing in unexpected ways in an “early warning sign” for a ...

With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an important discovery about tundra plants and how they are adapting faster ...

With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an important discovery about tundra plants and how they are adapting faster than ...

The Boreal forest, Snow Forest, Taiga, and the Arctic Circle all provide habitats for these special plants. ... Desert Plants & Creatures. There are plenty of plants that call the desert home.

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

From pinyon pines to ocotillos, plants in the Sonoran Desert are shifting where they ... the tundra as the bellwether for climate change. Arctic and alpine ecosystems are very sensitive.