Dr Bierman said: ‘It’s likely that it did not fully melt at any time, which allowed the tundra landscape to be locked away under the ice for millions of years. University of Vermont graduate ...

As the frozen ground warms much faster than expected, it’s reshaping the landscape—and releasing ... three dams on every other stream in the Arctic tundra,” Tape said.

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.