Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

The sink-to-source switch means that carbon-based plant and animal matter that has been stored in permafrost for thousands of years now streams into the air because of warmth-induced decomposition, ...

Harry Fuller escaped from television work to be executive editor at CNET News.com. Canadian researchers predict that climate change will be good for trees, but bad for tundra. They've studied tree ...

With controversy surrounding recent statements—scientific and otherwise—about the purported status of the Arctic climate, we thought we would take a look toward the future of plants in the icy world.

Plants of the alpine skypilot, Polemonium viscosum, occur from timberline to the highest ridgetops and summits of the Rocky Mountains, USA. To investigate the importance of herbivory in determining ...

Shrub expansion has occurred across much of the arctic tundra over the past century. Increasing dominance of woody vegetation is expected to have global influences on climate patterns and lead to ...

Green summer tundra and the rolling Mulgrave Hills in northwestern Alaska's Cape Krusenstern National Monument are seen on July 11, 2011. The Mulgrave Hills are the farthest west extension of the ...