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 ...

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 ...

Dwarf birch plants, for example, that had previously been knee high grew to head height in a matter of years. Based on this evidence, our best guess was that tundra warming would trigger an ...

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 ...

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 ...