Cotton grasses are adapted to stressful environments; up north it is the short summers, poor soils and cold temperatures of the tundra, down here it is the acidic, nutrient-poor, water-logged ...

Cavan Images / Getty Images. A common plant of the tundra biome, cotton grass is a herbaceous perennial with slender skinny leaves that look like grass.The stems grow anywhere from eight to 28 ...

THE TUNDRA LOOKS bleak in the long shadows that the morning sun is throwing from its usual midsummer spot near, but never below, the horizon. Mosquitoes by the thousands are hovering expectantly ...

The unique vegetation of the Arctic tundra could disappear by the year 2050 if no substantial reduction in global warming is achieved, ... Cotton grasses on the banks of the Lower Ilerney, Russia.

These plants experience brief growth periods during summer when temperatures are warm enough for vegetation, such as short shrubs and grasses, to thrive. The frozen ground prevents deep-rooted ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, Arctic grasses and plants have taken carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. When the plants die, they are frozen in the tundra soil, making a vault of trapped carbon.

The Arctic tundra has long been the domain of grasses and dwarf shrubs that grow only a few centimetres high. But taller plant species have been taking over this chilly neighbourhood, report an ...

For the online magazine Science Nation, PBS NewsHour correspondent Miles O’Brien speaks to Penn State University’s Sean Cahoon about what the Greenland tundra plants mean for the planet. As ...

Plants in the Arctic tundra are growing taller because of climate change, according to new research from a global collaboration led by the University of Edinburgh. Stock image of Arctic poppies.