The re-profiling of plant communities is important because it could alter the way the tundra ecosystem functions. Taller Arctic plants will trap more snow around them, insulating the ground from ...

The contrast between the declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd is correlated to different levels of ...

They found a plethora of fossils, including willow, fungi and insect body parts. But the most spectacular find was an impeccably preserved Arctic poppy ... the things all plants need to grow ...

The declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd use habitat with differing levels of climate change-related shrub growth.

The Arctic tundra, a critical “carbon sink” for thousands ... including wildfires, plant and microbial changes, and thawing permafrost. Permafrost is ground that is permanently frozen, which ...

They analyzed the communities, typical for the local sub-Arctic tundra ... Among the pioneer plants that were the first to appear on the wildfire sites, also was narrowleaf willow, and marsh ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Environmental groups intend to challenge today’s federal court ruling that the Willow oil-drilling project in Alaska’s Western Arctic can proceed. A federal court in Alaska has ...

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 ...