Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

Accelerated Arctic ... on Arctic life. But not all species were equally affected. The most sensitive species were vertebrates (including mammals and birds) and flowering plants.

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 ...

They found that some tundra plants like willowy shrubs are ... that window when the bumblebees can forage, making life very difficult for an Arctic bumblebee.” These shifts are reshaping ...

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 ...

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 ...

“And if you lose the flowering plants from these ecosystems, and particularly the ones that flower at different times across the summer, you can reduce that window when the bumblebees can forage, ...

I hiked one of the most popular trails in our area, Shrine Ridge. I was in it for the views, but more than that, I was eager to see the thing everyone ...

Not all plants can be stored in a seed bank. Cryopreservation offers an alternative, but critics question whether this form of conservation will work.

The Arctic tundra is found in the far north of ... this biome has better draining soils that support a wider variety of plant life. Alpine tundra ecosystems are located on various mountain ...