Key factors influencing biomes include light and water availability. It discusses various biomes such as the Arctic tundra, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, tropical rainforest, grasslands ...

Arctic tundra plants must adapt to the cold, dark conditions of the tundra as the sun does not rise during the winter months. These plants experience brief growth periods during summer when ...

A recent study has found that climate change is altering Arctic plant composition, with some species declining in response to ...

Funding cuts, begun by DOGE and now deepened in proposed budgets, are putting wildlife and public lands at risk and harming ...

Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an important discovery about tundra plants and how they are adapting faster ...

Scientists studying plants in one of the most extreme environments on Earth say the Arctic is indeed changing under the impact ... a postdoctoral researcher in tundra biodiversity at the University of ...

Global warming just got a brand-new source for trapping heat as Arctic tundra turns up the dial on CO2 emissions. It’s now in ...