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 ...

The Arctic is rapidly changing from the climate crisis, with no "new normal," scientists warn. Wildfires and permafrost thaw are making the tundra emit more carbon than it absorbs. From beaver ...

The world's tiniest trees can grow just a few centimetres high – discover more about their adaptations to the freezing Arctic ...

The Arctic is the fastest-warming place on Earth, leading to a greener tundra and thawing permafrost. But there is a ...

Far fewer have investigated the influence of vegetation on Arctic climates. Using new analyses of data measured at 64 Arctic sites from 1994-2021, an international research team has become the first ...

Satellite images show the Arctic has been getting greener as temperatures in the far northern region rise three times faster than the global average. Some theories suggest that this "Arctic greening" ...

Global warming is changing the Arctic by causing permafrost thaw, glacier melt, droughts, fires and changes in vegetation. These developments are strongly linked to the energy exchange between land ...

Deep snows prevent the release of carbon dioxide from boreal forests, but when the snows are shallower it can escape, making global heating almost impossible to stop. However, reindeer and their wild ...