Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750—twice the number of animal species lost. But which species are hit ...

LAST summer (1891) I spent some weeks in Western Russia and Northern Germany, in order to ascertain whether the glacial fresh-water deposits of those countries contained any remains of the ...

adding engineers are working now on a bigger power plant of 6MW, which could be assembled for the Krasnoyarsk Territory’s Turukhan district in the Arctic. The work on design continues in ...

The thawing of the permafrost not only changes the face of the Arctic, it also has an impact on Earth's climate. This is because permafrost stores huge amounts of carbon – the soils in the permafrost ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, August 25. /TASS/. Rosatom has selected five most promising sites to build small-capacity nuclear power plants in the Arctic, adviser of Rusatom Overseas (a Rosatom company ...

But that plant transformation, which scientists refer to as “shrubification,” has been much slower on the eastern side of Arctic Alaska, the range for the Porcupine Caribou Herd, he said.

So it’s root system is shallow to cope with the thin and frozen soil and the plants grow closely together to provide warmth and shelter from the strong winds. This is the Arctic fox. They are ...