These changes are fundamentally altering the ecosystem. For thousands of years, the shrubby landscape of the Arctic tundra stored carbon, but wildfires and thawing permafrost mean that this region ...

Thanks to that ingenuity, ravens survive in all kinds of habitats—from Arctic tundra to Texas heat. Two of the three ptarmigan species, rock and willow, live mainly in the Arctic. The third ...

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 ...

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 ...

a subarctic ecological transition region between Manitoba’s boreal forests to the south and the Arctic tundra of Nunavut to the north. Hudson Bay itself is so vast (317,500 square miles ...

Common and hoary redpolls are 2 closely related finches of the boreal forest and Arctic tundra scrub. The common is the more widespread species of the 2, usually inhabiting subarctic forest during ...