As the Arctic continues to warm faster than anywhere else on Earth, the temperature shift is driving changes in plant life, ...

Vegetation dynamics - increases in the quantity of green vegetation and a northward migration of trees into the arctic tundra - are a component of this change. Although field studies over long time ...

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

Follow in Tom Cruise’s footsteps with a cruise to Svalbard, the icy archipelago featured in the latest film in the popular ...

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 ...

But there are a number of plants and animals that still call this unforgiving ecosystem their home. There are three types of tundra biomes: Arctic tundra, Antarctic tundra, and Alpine tundra.

Arctic tundra plants must adapt to the cold, dark conditions of the tundra as the sun does not rise during the winter months. These plants experience brief growth periods during summer when ...

Over the past few decades, scientists have discovered that these ancient Arctic animals can live upwards of 400 years and are often blind due to a parasite that attaches itself to their corneas.

GRAFTON, Ill. — This week’s Throwback Thursday takes us back to May 1997 when Show Me St. Louis’s own Dan Buck visited the Wildflower Farm in Grafton, Illinois.

People picture the Arctic as a "harsh wilderness of endless tundra criss-crossed by rivers of crystal-clear water and home to wildlife untouched by humans", said the Worldwide Fund for Nature.

Arctic Cat announced May 8 that the Minnesota-based company plans to ramp up production at its Thief River Falls facility and its engine facility in St. Cloud and ultimately restore nearly 500 ...