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The word tundra comes from the Finnish word tunturia, which means 'treeless plain.' The extremely cold temperatures of the tundra, combined with the lack of precipitation makes for a rather barren ...

The Arctic is warming more rapidly than lower latitudes owing to climate amplification involving temperature, water vapour, albedo and sea ice feedbacks 5,7. Tundra ecosystems are thus predicted ...

One of the biggest studies to date of key vegetation in the Arctic tundra provides strong evidence that dramatic changes in the region are being driven by climate warming. Significant changes in ...

A new analysis reveals that this was the most destructive tundra fire at that site for at least 5,000 years. Models built on 60 years of climate and fire data found that even moderate increases in ...

Surface air temperatures: second-warmest since 1900. Summer 2024: wettest ever in the Arctic. Sea ice extent: sixth-lowest on record. Tundra greenness: second-highest in the 25-year record of ...

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 ...