The tundra, Earth’s coldest biome, is home to some impressively resourceful plants. They survive and often thrive in an environment that sees just a maximum of 10 inches of rain annually and ...

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 ...

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, small-leafed shrubs, and heaths.

Our understanding of plant and tree roots may have been somewhat shallow. New research reveals many plants have a hidden ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant communities in the Arctic, with species flourishing in some areas and declining in others, according to a new study in Nature. The decades-long investigation, ...

The Toyota Tundra 1794 Limited Edition was unveiled at the 2023 State Fair of Texas. Tech. ... The 1794 badge is an homage to the ranch, founded in 1794, on which the plant now sits.

They found that some tundra plants like willowy shrubs are able to green up earlier because of longer growing seasons, while other flowering plants are being overshadowed and dying out.

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 ...

Scientists collect tundra plant biodiversity data using point framing on Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island in the Canadian Arctic. (Jeff Kerby. The results show how vegetation changes are an early warning ...

Researchers studied over 2,000 plant communities across the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and Scandinavia over four decades. ... examines tundra plants in Herschel Island-Qikiqtaruk.