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

The average winter temperature in the Arctic is ... of 6-10 inches limits that growth to only the hardiest of plants. The Arctic tundra is characterized by its layer of permafrost or permanently ...

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 ...

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.

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 ... rely on lichen in ...

A recent study has found that climate change is altering Arctic plant communities, with some species declining ... now have a much more abundant food source to get them through the winter," Reid said.

Accelerated Arctic warming is reshaping the polar environment, but focusing only on the impacts of long-term annual temperature rise can miss key consequences of shorter-lived, but extreme, weather ...

Accelerated Arctic warming ... Even short surges of wild winter weather — 24 hours of rainfall on snow-covered ground, for example — can decimate animal and plant populations and change ...

Every winter across the Arctic, the top few inches or feet of soil and rich plant matter freezes up before ... freezing and thawing ground above it. Tundra grass show melting moisture near where ...

Climate change impacts on the Western Arctic Caribou Herd go beyond the spread of shrubs displacing tundra plants. Warm winter conditions in 2005 produced two days of rain in the herd’s winter ...