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 increase in average temperatures is changing weather and landscapes in the Arctic, speeding up the climate crisis worldwide. For example, beavers are moving into Alaska's tundra and ...

The temporal and spatial snow cover dynamics is the primary factor controlling the plant communities' composition and biogeochemical cycles in arctic and alpine tundra. However, the relationships ...

The polar landscape is extremely hostile ... animals and plants have adapted to survive the harsh Arctic tundra biome.

The Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs, according to the latest Arctic Report Card released by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

We look at the worrying trend of carbon emissions from the Arctic tundra, the coldest region in the planet, and the geography of biomes. The extreme weather event is Cyclone Chido that struck ...

A new study suggests regions of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than they absorb, upending a millennia-old trend. The study published in academic journal Nature ...