An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

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The newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum possesses a potentially highly flexible cell wall to help it survive ...

Content continues below This camouflage is key to their adaptation in some of Canada ... of maintaining snowy regions like the Arctic and Canadian tundra. If you’ve ever constructed a snowman ...

Arctic air onslaught coming to a Canadian city near you From shaping ecosystems to influencing our climate system, here are five of snow’s most incredible abilities, plus a couple of bonus ones that ...

Their teeth are well-suited for grinding tough plant ... adaptations to the harsh Arctic environment. Breeding typically occurs in the short summer months when the hares’ white fur transitions to a ...

With a varied diet that included both meat and plants, Homo erectus played a crucial role in ... all of these really different environments – everything from the Arctic tundra to the Sahara desert and ...

For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ ... along with wetlands and tundra. As the region warms, more vegetation means more CO₂intake from photosynthesis but also more CO2 being released through ...

Even though his recent years’ work in Arctic Alaska has been focused on plants, he said encountering willows and other woody plants covering what used to be open tundra west of the Dalton ...

A new study suggests regions of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet ... As permafrost thaws, long-dead plant matter begins to decompose and release planet-warming CO2 and methane ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...