Live Science highlights that even optimistic forecasts predict the disappearance of 70% of the tundra landscape. Melting permafrost in the Arctic is associated with the release of massive amounts ...

In the tundra, sedge meadows, peat bogs, and ponds cover the landscape. In the subarctic forest, where the ground is firmer, tiny, stunted trees can live to be hundreds of years old. Standing less ...

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests, and wetlands have become ... You can visually see the changes in the landscape,” she said. The study comes amid growing concern from scientists about ...