Summers have several weeks of continuous daylight - the Sun shines virtually 24 hours a day, which is why the Arctic is also called the Land of the Midnight Sun. Winters are long and dark, and ...

A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide. Since ...

Last year, Longyearbyen recorded an average July temperature over 10°C, challenging the traditional polar climate definition ...

Animals have had to adapt to the tundra climate in ways that keep them warm and help them find food. Thick fur and small ears help the Arctic fox retain body heat The Arctic fox lives in a cold ...

Travis W. Drake, Robert M. Holmes, Alexander V. Zhulidov, Tatiana Gurtovaya, Peter A. Raymond, James W. McClelland, Robert G. M. Spencer Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 64, No. S1, SPECIAL ISSUE: ...

The story of Arctic greening has overlooked some main characters. At center stage are climate change and warming temperatures ...

Tundra thawing from climate change burps up huge amounts of previously frozen methane, accelerating the process further. Beetles are no longer killed by cold winters, so they kill millions of ...

Boreal forests and Arctic tundra are underlain by millions of square kilometers of permafrost, and scientists are still unsure of how the thawing of this long-frozen soil will affect the climate.

Filmed in the Canadian Arctic, this program identifies and explores the physical and human factors, including climate change that affect carbon and water cycles in the tundra. Stages 4-5 Science and ...

A new study highlights the importance of caribou and muskoxen to the greening Arctic tundra, linking grazing with plant phenology and abundance in the Arctic tundra.