The Arctic tundra now releases more carbon than ... This shift is partly due to giant polar wildfires burning down tundra vegetation and all the carbon it's stored. It's also because of permafrost ...

The end of 2024 marks the 24th year of the southwestern United States’s “megadrought”—a type of drought that often last ...

Even though his recent years’ work in Arctic Alaska has been focused on plants, he said encountering willows and other woody plants covering what used to be open tundra west of the Dalton ...

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

wildfires in the Arctic have increased in burned area, intensity, and associated carbon emissions, playing a central role in the tundra's transition to a net carbon source. "By burning vegetation ...

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’.