Life in the Tundra: ... While still very cold, the growing season of the Alpine tundra is around 180 days. Plants that thrive in these conditions include dwarf shrubs, grasses, ...

Climate change is already having a dramatic effect on plants in the High Arctic, ... Climate change doubles tundra plant life. The Canadian Press Published Sunday, August 23, 2009 8:29AM EDT Share: ...

From hardy flowers to fuzzy stems and berry bushes, these 15 tundra plants grow in the coldest biome on Earth thanks to these unique adaptations. ... Life in the Tundra: The Coldest Biome on Earth.

Ecologist Isla Myers-Smith researches how tundra plants respond to climate change and what it means for future ecosystems. While she's mostly worked in the Canadian Arctic, for the last two years ...

Plants in the Arctic tundra are growing taller because of climate change, according to new research from a global collaboration led by the University of Edinburgh. Stock image of Arctic poppies.

There could be ripple effects. Scientists raise red flag after discovering concerning trend with plants in Arctic: 'An early warning signal' first appeared on The Cool Down.

That's a major transition that could reap consequences on human, plant and animal life far beyond Earth's northernmost arena, warned a cohort of scientists whose research appears in the National ...

For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the case no more, according to an annual report issued on Tuesday by the ...