Arctic plants serve as early indicators of climate change, revealing critical shifts in ecosystems that impact the planet's future. The post Arctic Plants: Early Indicators of Climate Change Effects ...

Fast warming in the Arctic - now running at roughly four times the global average - is reshaping landscapes, affecting shrubs ...

clouds of biting insects and even the occasional polar bear encounter.” But, he added, it’s all worth it. “We need to do long-term research to understand the Arctic, as ecosystem change starts with ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

Scientists studying Arctic plants say the ecosystems that host life ... clouds of biting insects and even the occasional polar bear encounter”. But researchers didn’t have enough data to ...

It’s well established that the slow incremental “press” of rising temperatures is changing the Arctic landscape, threatening the survival of plants and animals adapted to this unique ecosystem. Less ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant communities in the Arctic, with species flourishing in some areas and declining in others, according to a new study in Nature. The decades-long investigation, ...

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 ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...