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 inches tall with three to five ...

The tundra is also home to rare species like ... this ecosystem will gradually disappear." A researcher takes photos of vegetation on a mountain in Keerveem, Russia. A researcher takes photos ...

As the Arctic tundra warms, woody plants are growing along its rivers ... 11,000 new beaver ponds Tape and his colleagues assessed aerial photos from the early 1950s and found no signs of beaver ...

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 by extremely cold temperatures and ...

"These spy images are a gold mine as a reference ... The shrubs grow quickly and have tough roots." But while vegetation clearly has expanded in the tundra during the past few decades, as ...

Mountain goats, sheep, marmots, and birds live in mountain—or alpine—tundra and feed on the low-lying plants and insects. Hardy flora like cushion plants survive in the mountain zones by ...

Landslides have long-term effects on tundra vegetation, a new study shows ... Peninsula covers 35 square kilometres. "VHR satellite images allow us to see very small changes in the land cover ...

Using satellite images to track global tundra ecosystems over decades, a new study found the region has become greener, as warmer air and soil temperatures lead to increased plant growth.

Satellite images show the Arctic has been getting ... And there's another problem. Normally, plants on the tundra store more carbon through photosynthesis than the tundra releases, making it ...

Some images were worthy of Ansel Adams ... could produce dramatic growth of shrubs at the expense of nonwoody tundra plants such as sedges and mosses. Dwarf birch plants, for example, that ...