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.

A 2,000-acre lightning-sparked fire north of the Brooks Range fits a pattern of increasing wildfires on the treeless tundra.

Analysis - If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, you're walking over a vast underground patchwork of fungal filaments, ...

Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue at ...

The tundra biome is the coldest and one of the largest ecosystems on Earth. It covers about one-fifth of the land on the planet, primarily in the Arctic circle but also in Antarctica as well as a ...

With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an important discovery about tundra plants and how they are adapting faster ...

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 ...

Tundra plants can eke out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Photo credit: Anne Bjorkman.

The growth of woody plants in Arctic tundra regions affects more than caribou. In northwestern Alaska, where the growth has been most dramatic, it has attracted a proliferation of beavers, for ...

Caribou depend on tundra plants like lichen and mosses; the shrubs and trees taking over the terrain are reducing the availability of that food favored by the animals. Western Arctic Caribou Herd ...