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 ...

Mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife are on the rise despite reductions in mercury release, according to a new study ...

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 ...

Wildlife in the Arctic is also being impacted by these changes. Summer heat is disrupting the movements and survival of ...

Arctic tundra, which for thousands of years ... in Alaska’s Cape Krusenstern National Monument on Aug. 31, 2008. Tundra plants absorb atmospheric carbon in the summer, when they use sunlight ...

Even though his recent years’ work in Arctic Alaska has been focused on plants, he said encountering willows and other woody plants covering what used to be open tundra west of the Dalton ...

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

Arctic tundra, which has stored carbon for thousands ... The warming directly influences global sea-level rise, weather patterns, wildlife migrations, and other effects of human-caused climate ...

That has mainly been due to carbon uptake from plants, which regulate ... But warming air temperatures in the Arctic are breaking down permafrost across the tundra, in some cases, severely.

A new review on zoonotic infections (diseases spread by animals) in the Canadian Arctic offers important guidance to clinicians, as the region gains global attention and climate change raises the ...

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which is about the size ... A lone caribou, separated from the larger herd, wanders over the tundra. Back in Kaktovik, Gordon was tracking the herd’s ...

Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the Arctic region to release more carbon dioxide and methane than its plants remove. The tundra is now a global carbon emitter. Cladonia stellaris ...