Arctic plants serve as early indicators of climate change, revealing critical shifts in ecosystems that impact the planet's ...

Fast warming in the Arctic - now running at roughly four times the global average - is reshaping landscapes, affecting shrubs ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant life in the Arctic. A new study in Nature shows how one of the most fragile ecosystems on Earth is changing as warming is up to four times faster in the ...

With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant communities in the Arctic ... She stressed the outsized importance of Arctic environments to both people and life on Earth. “The Arctic holds a huge amount of ...

A recent study has found that climate change is altering Arctic plant communities, with some species declining in response to warmer temperatures, while others flourish. The study, published in ...

Scientists studying Arctic plants say the ecosystems that host life in some of the most inhospitable reaches of the planet are changing in unexpected ways in an “early warning sign” for a ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant life in the Arctic. A new study in Nature shows how one of the most fragile ecosystems on Earth is changing as warming is up to four times faster in the ...

As global warming melts more sea ice in the polar regions, the light that enters the ocean is not just increasing in amount—it’s also changing in color. This shift in the underwater light environment ...

It’s well established that the slow incremental “press” of rising temperatures is changing the Arctic landscape, threatening the survival of plants and animals adapted to this unique ecosystem. Less ...

Scientists studying plants in one of the most extreme environments on Earth say the Arctic is indeed changing under the impact of global warming—but not in a uniform way. Researchers tracked more than ...