Planting trees has become a widely praised, low-cost way to tackle climate change. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, helping to ...

Arctic plants serve as early indicators of climate change, revealing critical shifts in ecosystems that impact the planet's ...

described the research as involving “thousands of hours of fieldwork in remote locations—enduring extreme weather, clouds of biting insects and even the occasional polar bear encounter.” But, he added ...

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 ...

Unsurprisingly, extreme weather events in winter do not bode ... vertebrates (including mammals and birds) and flowering plants. “The Arctic is defined by snow, and so much of the Arctic is ...

rapidly warming temperatures and extreme weather events. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet and recent modeling has shown that many Arctic plants may lose all their ...