Biomes are the world's major habitats. We identify biomes by the vegetation and animals that populate them and determine the location of each by the regional climate. The tundra biome is characterized ...

Tundra ecosystems, present in northern arctic and alpine regions, lack trees but have an abundance of shrubs, grasses and mosses. “Tundra plants grow slowly, trapping carbon below ground,” explains ...

From rising oceans to species extinction, climate change is affecting our world in numerous ways. Now, an international team of researchers has revealed the wide-ranging impact that the changing ...

A week ago Sunday, Arctic sea ice cover reached its lowest extent ever recorded. For good reason, there has been significant media focus on how a warming sea gobbles up the ice that is polar bear ...

Niinemets, W. A. Ozinga, J. Peñuelas, P. B. Reich, B. Schamp, S. Sheremetev, P. M. van Bodegom, Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size-related traits across the ...

Warming temperatures are causing plants across alpine and arctic environments to stay green longer and reproduce earlier, scientists find Across the tundra, warming temperatures are causing plants to ...

Lapland is a place many of us dream of visiting. There’s plenty to do here: husky rides, visit the grottos and, if you’re lucky, see the spectacular northern lights. But how has the environment shaped ...