The increase in average temperatures is changing weather and landscapes in the Arctic, speeding up the climate crisis worldwide. For example, beavers are moving into Alaska's tundra and ...

An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

The snowy white tundra swan breeds in the Arctic and migrates many miles to winter on North America's Atlantic and Pacific coastlines, bays, and lakes. The eastern population frequents the ...

one story that was so surprising even Sir David Attenborough hadn’t heard of it The Arctic tundra is one of the last true wildernesses on Earth – a vast northern land of extremes where ...

Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’. The arctic tundra encircles the North Pole, extending from the ...

The growth of woody plants in Arctic tundra regions affects more than caribou ... it has attracted a proliferation of beavers, for example. And as beavers colonize the landscape, they are ...

The temperature has also been rising; the past nine years have been the warmest on record in the Arctic. The changes have affected the region’s wildlife, with migratory tundra caribou ...

For example, ocean acidification is making Arctic waters unlivable for many calcifying creatures, melting permafrost threatens to drain tundra wetlands, and erosion is degrading coastal habitats.