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 ...

And concerningly, the region’s tundra has transitioned from ... of decades ago,” she said. Overall, the Arctic is becoming a greener landscape with more extreme precipitation and less snow ...

A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...

The Arctic tundra, a critical “carbon sink” for ... “A lot of these changes are very dramatic to the landscape and also irreversible,” she said. “So, understanding that what’s ...

What animals live in the coldest areas of the planet? We've done the research! Meet the animals thriving in earth's polar ...

The Arctic Design Group, a collaboration of UVA professors and ... His team looked at snow and meltwater management, researching the flow of water throughout the tundra landscape and issues melting ...

Many of the bird species that arctic foxes hunt during the summer migrate south to escape the harsh winter weather. The foxes ...

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’.