Live Science highlights that even optimistic forecasts predict the disappearance of 70% of the tundra landscape. Melting permafrost in the Arctic is associated with the release of massive amounts ...

“First, it will damage and degrade permafrost and the tundra landscape faster and create lots of issues for people living there.” Before visiting, Fong’s team analyzed data using high-resolution ...

In the tundra, sedge meadows, peat bogs, and ponds cover the landscape. In the subarctic forest, where the ground is firmer, tiny, stunted trees can live to be hundreds of years old. Standing less ...

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

With this intentional focus on protecting this unique landscape, there are few developed infrastructure areas in the park, which leads to traffic problems in areas including the Bear Lake Road ...