A nondescript, decrepit twist of gnarled wood found tucked between rocks in the Finnish tundra is a lot more than meets the eye ... (Marco Carrer) Animals and plants are very different kinds of ...

NATIVE TO ROCKY PEAKS seasonally covered in snow, alpine plants shrug off blazing sun, extreme cold, strong wind and poor soil — hardly the cushy conditions found in a home garden.

Researchers at the University of Calgary are suggesting a more comprehensive approach for identifying at-risk wildlife populations—such as caribou—based on individual movement patterns. The ...

seeks to provide new knowledge on ecosystem functions in the Alpine and Polar context, using long-term experiments together with mechanistic laboratory experiments. We focus on climate induced changes ...

Alpine Shire planners have backed a 400MW lithium battery plant in the Kiewa Valley, dismissing farmland earmarked for the proposed site as lower grade agricultural land and also downplaying the ...