Vegetation in Arctic tundra regions is limited due to dry conditions, poor soil quality, frigid temperatures, and permafrost. Arctic tundra plants must ... to grow at a near-constant rate.

Plants can grow with much less light than previously thought, according to a new study on tiny water-based organisms called ...

I witnessed both the agony and the ecstasy of the mystic Arctic landscape during the three-week expedition on a French ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...

The first, near Nome, had greater plant cover ... and take of Arctic greening: differential responses of the carbon sink-to-source threshold to light and temperature in tussock tundra may be ...

The difficulties of the Svalbard seed repository illustrate why we need to prevent climate disaster rather than plan for it ...

Rising temperatures are thought to reduce the number of ice crystals in clouds, leading to the formation of liquid-dominated clouds. However, a new study has found that Arctic warming is causing an ...

connecting the Pacific Ocean to the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north. The Rybachiy submarine base near Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula is the home of all nuclear-powered submarines ...

Colorado's beautiful Rocky Mountain National Park is home to a diverse range of flora and fauna, including more than 280 ...

The German-led team of researchers lowered light sensors into Arctic water to a depth of 50 metres to test how low light levels must become before plant life ceases to exist, with incredible results.

Plants can grow with much less light than previously thought, according to a new study on tiny water-based organisms called microalgae that has been published in Nature Communications. The German-led ...