The Arctic tundra now releases more carbon than ... This shift is partly due to giant polar wildfires burning down tundra vegetation and all the carbon it's stored. It's also because of permafrost ...

The end of 2024 marks the 24th year of the southwestern United States’s “megadrought”—a type of drought that often last ...

A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...

An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

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 ...

For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone has acted as a critical carbon reservoir, locking away vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...

Habitats are diverse environments where plants and animals live, providing natural resources that living things need to ...

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’.