The plant I wanted to see was cotton grass, one of my favorite springtime ... These little hamster-like rodents of the Arctic tundra increase in numbers year after year until there is a population ...

The creeping arctic willow has adapted to the ... allowing them to access water over larger surfaces. A common plant of the tundra biome, cotton grass is a herbaceous perennial with slender ...

Several Utqiaġvik residents explored the local edible and medicinal plants last week when Iḷisaġvik College instructor MaryJane Litchard hosted a two-day traditional plant workshop on a windy day.

There’s no doubt the Arctic is warming ... shading out low-growing lichens and plants like ground willow and cotton grass, all favorite foraging items for grazers like caribou.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mid-June on Vestvågøy island, Lofoten, in northernmost Norway, and the verge is flecked with magenta ...

All the while, researchers are racing to quantify how the plant species of the Arctic are coping with a much, much warmer world. In a word, well. And probably: too well. Using satellite data ...

In recent years, in some parts of the Arctic, extraordinary warm winter weather, sometimes paired with rainfall, has put tundra vegetation under enormous stress and caused plants to lose freeze ...

Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic: Salix arctica is the dominant shrub species The low-lying shrubs, grasses and other plants growing ... Daskalova The grass species Alopecurus alpinus ...

The low-lying shrubs, grasses and other plants growing in ... the centimetres-tall Arctic flora could double in size by the end of the century. The grass species Alopecurus alpinus is one of ...