Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the region to release more carbon dioxide than its plants remove, probably for ...

Reindeer are a species of deer also known as caribou in certain regions. They are found in the Arctic tundra and boreal ...

means that it looks like the Usnea lichen. Bryophytes are another fascinating group of plants. They include mosses, ...

lichen. Snow and ice have melted and refrozen, burying it under layers of packed ice. The Arctic is warming faster than other parts of the world due to climate change – nearly four times as fast ...

Can one imagine an Arctic without sea ice? When earlier Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) studies predicted it ...

For many reindeer to survive in the wild, this lichen is necessary. Reindeer live in the Arctic tundra (a frigid treeless plain) and the northern boreal woodlands that border the tundra.