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

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America hosts many animals, including the beautiful, ugly, cute, dangerous, wild, and domesticated. Among these animals is ...

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

Watch how this baby porcupine apparently throws a tantrum and then discover what he is really doing with his body and quills.

Here's a closer look at each of these ecosystems and the plants and animals that live there. The Arctic tundra is found in the far north of the Northern Hemisphere. It circles the North Pole and ...

Planting trees has become a widely praised, low-cost way to tackle climate change. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, helping to ...

Rising temperatures could cause huge amounts of toxic materials to seep out of sealed-off mines into waterways ...

He reveals all about Scadinavia's "stunning, almost otherworldly landscapes" and "a nuclear bunker hidden beneath a ...

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.

A recent study has found that climate change is altering Arctic plant communities, with some species declining ... "They expanded out of the Mackenzie Delta along the Yukon North Slope into some of ...

Scientists studying Arctic plants say the ecosystems ... where the tundra is “greening” at an incredible rate as shrubs such as willow push north and grow taller. Shrubs are highly competitive ...