Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It's a trend that will continue at least through the end of this century, according to NASA researchers. The ...

Editor’s Note: Natalie Boelman is an assistant research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, New York. For the past 10 years she has been conducting field research ...

Warming temperatures are causing plants across alpine and arctic environments to stay green longer and reproduce earlier, scientists find Across the tundra, warming temperatures are causing plants to ...

Summer temperature increased significantly over the study region, but the rate of change was spatially variable: mean study-period summer warming =0.72 °C (standard ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Tundra means rolling treeless plains. The average weather is frigid and dry ...

Despite the size and severity of the massive 2007 Anaktuvuk River fire on Alaska's North Slope, much of the arctic vegetation has recovered and the tundra is likely to return to its pre-fire condition ...