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The Arctic tundra is changing so fast that it is speeding up the climate crisis, top scientists say
The Arctic tundra now releases more carbon than ... This shift is partly due to giant polar wildfires burning down tundra vegetation and all the carbon it's stored. It's also because of permafrost ...
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Warming climates force plants to compete with each other
Scientists studied plant DNA to understand past extinctions. They found that warming climates increase competition, ...
‘Megadroughts’ Have Made Themselves Known in the 21st Century. They’re Going to Get Worse.
The end of 2024 marks the 24th year of the southwestern United States’s “megadrought”—a type of drought that often last ...
Newly discovered algae species offers insights into plant evolution and UV protection
An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...
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Caribou herds in Arctic Alaska trend in opposite directions
Even though his recent years’ work in Arctic Alaska has been focused on plants, he said encountering willows and other woody plants covering what used to be open tundra west of the Dalton ...
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KS3 / GCSE Geography: How animals have adapted to live in the Arctic tundra
But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.
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Parts of tundra releasing more carbon than they absorb: study
Parts of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than ... of the boreal forest and the Arctic increased how much carbon it can hold in its plants and soils from 2001 to 2020. The ...