Giant groundsels are rare plants that grow up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall. They are endemic to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

Few places are home to as many superlative natural features and contrasts as Greenland, an island 80 percent covered in ice, ...

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 ...

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 than ...

The decades-long investigation, led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, compiled data from 1981 to 2022 on more than 2,000 plant communities across the Arctic tundra. Analysis revealed ...

The Arctic fox, with its pristine white winter coat and remarkable adaptations ... the otherwise sparse tundra. The disturbed soil and nutrient enrichment around active dens creates microhabitats ...

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 ...

a postdoctoral researcher in tundra biodiversity at the University of Edinburgh. “Warmer temperatures are bringing in more species, but not everywhere. Shrubs are reshaping the Arctic ecosystem, but ...

Through extraordinary adaptations developed over millennia of evolution, these resilient species have conquered some of Earth’s most inhospitable conditions. From the windswept Arctic tundra to the ..