A new study suggests regions of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than they absorb, upending a ...

The contrast between the declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd is correlated to different levels of ...

Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’. The arctic tundra encircles the North Pole, extending from the ...

That's a major transition that could reap consequences on human, plant and animal life far ... the latest Arctic evaluation was the effects of warmer weather and wildfires on the tundra, a far ...

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as ...

Animals have had to adapt to the tundra climate in ways that keep them warm and help them find food. Thick fur and small ears help the Arctic fox retain body heat The Arctic fox lives in a cold ...

Imagine a world where woolly mammoths roam the tundra once more—not in a prehistoric dream but as a living, breathing reality ...

Zoonotic infections of the Canadian Arctic - (https://www.cmaj.ca/content/197/2/E34) ...

While the warm weather brings a pulse of life to the north, our story reveals how in the Arctic there are no easy seasons. Food is scarce on the tundra, and the wolves fall on hard times.

The declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd use habitat with differing levels of climate change-related ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren’t one ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost ...

For example, ocean acidification is making Arctic waters unlivable for many calcifying creatures, melting permafrost threatens to drain tundra wetlands, and erosion is degrading coastal habitats.