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 ...

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

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.

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

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.

The water butts are brimming over from repeated ... Mosquitos are thriving. New insects and plant species from further south have moved in. But the local grain harvest has suffered from the ...

A research group is testing a new suicide prevention model in rural Alaska Native villages: supporting cultural activities ...

Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable ... slogging 18 hours a day over the icy tundra. He is cold and exhausted, with a hunger so primal that he has been reduced to ...

A 2021 pledge by more than 100 nations to cut methane emissions from anthropogenic sources 30 percent by 2030 might not slow global warming as much as projected, as new research shows that ...