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 ...

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 Arctic is warming faster than any other area of the planet. How environmental change affects the landscape, weather ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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