Summers have several weeks of continuous daylight - the Sun shines virtually 24 hours a day, which is why the Arctic is also called the Land of the Midnight Sun. Winters are long and dark, and ...

Regions of similar climate and dominant plant ... and low-growing perennial shrubs. The tundra biome contains only about 3% of the world’s flora. Up to 60% of the flora can be made up of long ...

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

The Arctic tundra has historically helped reduce global emissions. But rising temperatures and wildfires in the region are changing that, scientists say.

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.