Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

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

For caribou, growth of woody plants like alders and willows means problems. Caribou depend on tundra plants like lichen and mosses; the shrubs and trees taking over the terrain are reducing the ...

frozen in ice on a barren tundra in northwest Wyoming. Uncovering the rest of the story is a race against time. The ghostly fallen trees and stumps were revealed in a melting ice patch in the ...

Landscape fires trigger soil erosion processes: the tundra's upper cover, being left without plant protection, warms up faster and deeper, which leads to a significant degradation of the permafrost.

Each biome has characteristics that make it unique, for example Alaska is a type of tundra. The animals and plants have to be really tough to survive the freezing conditions. Deserts are dry and ...