But in the upper layers of soil, around 1,700 types of plants find a way to flourish. The Arctic tundra contains a number of low shrubs and sedges as well as reindeer mosses, liverworts, grasses ...

As we’ve just mentioned, Arctic hares are the largest hares in North America, meaning they grow to impressive sizes. Arctic hares can actually be as much as 28 inches long, not including their tail.

Tundra describes the Arctic’s tree-less plains, where shrubs, grasses, and mosses grow and take in carbon dioxide through photosynthesis. Plants eventually release that CO2 back into the ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant communities in the Arctic, with species flourishing in some areas and declining in others, according to a new study in Nature. The decades-long investigation, ...

In the tundra, there’s no clear winner. Scientists studying plants in one of the most extreme environments on Earth say the Arctic is indeed changing under the impact of global warming—but not in a ...

With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an important discovery about tundra plants and how they are adapting faster ...

For the 11th year in a row, the Arctic this year was more abnormally warm than the world as a whole, the report card said. The period from October 2023 to September was the second-warmest for the ...

For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the case no more, according to an annual report issued on Tuesday by the ...

But warming air temperatures in the Arctic are breaking down permafrost across the tundra, in some cases, severely. The Arctic report, for example, showed Alaskan permafrost temperatures in 2024 ...

Scientists studying Arctic plants say the ecosystems that host life in some of the most inhospitable reaches of the planet are changing in unexpected ways in an “early warning sign” for a ...

Rapid climate change is upending established plant diversity and growth patterns in the Arctic, with species blooming in some areas and declining in others, suggests a study published today in the ...