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 ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant life in the Arctic. A new study in Nature shows how one of the most fragile ecosystems ...

How Reindeer Survive in the Arctic Reindeers survive in the Arctic thanks to a series of adaptations that ... of soil that ...

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 ...

Fast warming in the Arctic - now running at roughly four times the global average - is reshaping landscapes, affecting shrubs ...

A recent study has found that climate change is altering Arctic plant communities ... at the University of British Columbia, examines tundra plants in Herschel Island-Qikiqtaruk.

When it comes to climate, what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. The effects of Arctic warming are a ...

Its adaptations include two layers of fur ... Wildlife presenter Ferne Corrigan takes a look at the Arctic tundra and how plants and animals have adapted to live in this biome.

as bare spots on the tundra, favoured by the lichen that they like to eat, are overtaken by shrubs. “This has cascading effects for Arctic animals that depend on these plants, also for food ...

After storing carbon dioxide for millennia in frozen soil, the Arctic tundra ... and adaptation strategies.” The report card outlines how climate shifts are forcing plants, wildlife, and the ...