What if things change much more quickly?” The Zimovs believe that large grazing animals helped maintain rich Arctic grasslands during the Ice Age, in part by fertilizing the grass. In hopes of ...

Furthermore, by knocking down trees and maintaining grasslands, Colossal says, mammoths will help slow snowmelt, ensuring Arctic ecosystems absorb less sunlight. Elephants—widely described as ...

Arctic foxes and wolves stalk lemmings and ... For the last 100,000 years of that epoch, extensive grasslands ringed the northerly latitudes of the globe. Known as the mammoth steppe, they made ...

In 2021, the Arctic recorded more than 7,200 lightning ... “When we want to go and burn the grasslands, (the authorities) turn you in and they give you a ticket. They give you jail time ...

The Arctic is heating up particularly fast as ... which thaws in summer and allows plants to grow: grasslands, forests, or wetlands with ponds and lakes. In some areas, the landscape resembles ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

To maintain grasslands nevertheless, "prescribed" burning, which is what land managers call controlled burning, is being discussed as a labor-efficient option. But not all grasslands are equal.