Provides an introduction to Earth's biomes, explaining how they are communities of living organisms shaped by climate and geography. Key factors influencing biomes include light and water availability ...

"If you want to lock eyes with a bear, you've got to make your way to Churchill," said John Gunter, CEO of Frontiers North, a ...

The Arctic Boreal Zone (ABZ) is a particularly important one: for many centuries now, its tundra, coniferous forests ... the world’s largest land-based biome. The Teesta dam and the long ...

Arctic landscapes occupy a nexus of environmental change processes, globally significant soil carbon stores, wildlife populations, and subsistence-based human societies. In response to rapid climate ...

Dangling at the western edge of the European mainland and well above the Arctic Circle, Lofoten, which looks like a peninsula on the map, is actually a group of about 80 islands, with five of ...

Discusses the tundra biome, highlighting its extreme climate characterized by low temperatures and a short growing season. It describes the unique adaptations of tundra wildlife, such as the muskox ...

The Net Ecosystem Carbon Balance (NECB) is a crucial metric for understanding integrated carbon dynamics in Arctic and boreal regions, which are vital to the global carbon cycle. These areas are ...

Characteristics of the 10 properties studied regarding the size of the dairy cows lots, supplemented with concentrate and corn or sugarcane silage, manual or mechanical milking and the type of ...

Found in the frigid northern waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, these animals play a crucial role in their ecosystem. One of the most intriguing aspects of the walrus is its communication, ...

According to a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Arctic tundra, a frozen treeless habitat that has stored carbon for thousands of years, is now a source of heat ...

The team also found that the evolutionary relationships between four animal groups paralleled the relationships between their microbiomes, supporting the notion that microbial communities living ...