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 ...

During the winter, the opposite occurs, and the entire landscape ... the Arctic tundra (a frigid treeless plain) and the northern boreal woodlands that border the tundra. This type of biome ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arctic is a gripping film about a man stranded in the Arctic Circle after his plane crashes, and his desperate battle to beat the odds against the punishing icy landscape. The film wastes no time ...