Scientists studied plant DNA to understand past extinctions. They found that warming climates increase competition, ...

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

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 ...

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

Among the pioneer plants that were the first to appear on ... of frozen soils in post-pyrogenic landscapes in the sub-Arctic tundra, point to thermal anomalies in the permafrost that have ...

This warming stimulates plant growth, removing carbon from the ... the report card found that the Arctic tundra has shifted from storing carbon to being a source of carbon emissions to the atmosphere.

The snowy white tundra swan breeds in the Arctic and migrates many miles to ... feed by dipping their heads underwater to pluck aquatic plants, tubers, and roots. They also eat shellfish and ...

The Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon dioxide ... The warming Arctic has dual effects, adversely impacting soil, ice, plants, animals, and communities that rely on them, with consequences ...

Wildlife presenter Ferne Corrigan takes a look at the Arctic tundra and how plants and animals have adapted to live in this biome. Ferne describes the location of the tundra biomes around the ...