The findings paint a new picture of life in the Arctic’s polar night and possibly beyond. Life may not be packed entirely into a few short months of summer; rather, the waters may be productive ...

KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - savannahs and ...

The Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia, half a mile wide and growing, is the largest of many across the Arctic ... plant detritus. Called the active layer, this soil normally thaws each summer ...

a plant indigenous to tundra ecosystems in Alaska. Wilkes undergraduates are participating in the project as field assistants, spending up to 10 weeks during the summer at the Toolik Lake Field ...

The arctic tundra encircles the North Pole ... only a few centimetres - may melt during the summer months, leaving muddy pools of water. Some plants and vegetation do grow here.

After locking carbon dioxide in its frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic ... finding tundra caribou numbers have decreased by 65 percent over the past two to three decades -- with summer heat ...

They analyzed the communities, typical for the local sub-Arctic tundra ... trigger soil erosion processes: the tundra's upper cover, being left without plant protection, warms up faster and ...