Among these animals is the Arctic hare, the largest hare in North America. The Arctic hare has large claws on all four feet, ...

Warming temperatures are causing Arctic peatlands to expand, temporarily boosting carbon storage—but long-term stability remains uncertain.

Every day for the last month I’ve been working along the Dalton Highway, the 495-mile, two-lane gravel road that connects ...

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But there are a number of plants and animals that still call this unforgiving ecosystem their home. There are three types of tundra biomes: Arctic tundra, Antarctic tundra, and Alpine tundra.

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 ...

The decades-long investigation, led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, compiled data from 1981 to 2022 on more than 2,000 plant communities across the Arctic tundra. Analysis revealed ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

Mariana García Criado, a postdoctoral researcher in tundra biodiversity at the University of Edinburgh. “Warmer temperatures are bringing in more species, but not everywhere. Shrubs are reshaping the ...

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 ...

Even though his recent years’ work in Arctic Alaska has been focused on plants, he said encountering willows and other woody plants covering what used to be open tundra west of the Dalton ...