A new study highlights the importance of caribou and muskoxen to the greening Arctic tundra, linking grazing with plant phenology and abundance in the Arctic tundra. The story of Arctic greening ...

"The absence or presence of herbivores can also impact the timing of plant growth and their productivity." Many caribou populations in the Arctic are in decline, including migratory tundra caribou ...

linking grazing with plant phenology and abundance in the Arctic tundra. Phenology is the study of the timing and cyclical patterns in nature, such as when birds migrate, or when a plant first sprouts ...

Well, the Arctic and its plants aren’t immune to this silent invasion. New evidence suggests that it’s not just the temperature change we should be monitoring, but also our hoofed friends out on the ...

Here I studied the abundance and variety of tundra plants. Today, the Arctic has already blown past 2 C of warming. Understanding the effects of climate change on this island could provide ...

See video, photos, and hear from scientists in their own words in a scrollytelling digital narrative of this article, available here, and on the ORNL News Desk. The Arctic is warming faster than ...

Longhi stopped and stepped back as his colleague placed a plastic chamber over a tiny portion of the vast Arctic tundra to test whether gasses released from the permafrost varied by the plants ...

Planting millions of trees in the Arctic ... affect plant communities and snow conditions in ways that result in net cooling. “This happens both directly, by keeping tundra landscapes open ...

In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the Danish researchers, along with colleagues from the University of Cambridge, state that the Arctic is particularly unsuitable for afforestation. The ...