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 ...

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. iStock "For example, if plants ...

“Tundra plants grow slowly, trapping carbon below ground,” explains ecologist Isla Myers-Smith of the University of Edinburgh. “As much as two thirds of plant biomass could actually be growing below ...

From arctic tundra natural plant communities of the Northern Presidentials ... Philbrick-Cricenti Bog in New London is an excellent example of a Peatlands kettle hole bog. Over 18,000 years ...

How does gaseous elemental mercury end up in the tundra soil? “It’s a process similar to the uptake of carbon dioxide by plants. In this case, the mercury gas is absorbed by tundra plants and then ...