Rapid climate change is upending plant life in the Arctic. A new study in Nature shows how one of the most fragile ecosystems on Earth is changing as warming is up to four times faster in the ...

Life in the Tundra: ... around 1,700 types of plants find a way to flourish. The Arctic tundra contains a number of low shrubs and sedges as well as reindeer mosses, liverworts, ...

This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to ...

But a study in the journal "Nature" finds that arctic plant life has adapted to the changing climate, and is helping soak up some carbon dioxide. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature.

The plants were blooming by mid-March, when levels of light are still incredibly low in the Arctic. Even organisms located directly under snow-covered ice, where only a few photons could penetrate ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant communities in the Arctic, with species flourishing in some areas and declining in others, according to a new study in Nature. The decades-long investigation, ...

Global Seed Vault: the Arctic’s doomsday depository that could save plant life from climate change. Tucked away inside a mountain in the Arctic lies humanity's chance for salvation from ...

ORONO — About 13,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, glaciers that pushed arctic plant life across the northern hemisphere receded and left some behind on mountain tops in the ...

ORONO — About 13,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, glaciers that pushed arctic plant life across the northern hemisphere receded and left some behind on mountain tops in the ...

A polar bear stands on an ice floe near the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in June 2008. (AP Photo/Romas Dabrukas, File) (CN) — As record heat baked the Arctic for the third summer in a row, ...

An Arctic poppy thrives on the northern coast of Greenland. Among the plant life in this region, these hardy flowers are like giants. Some, like this one, grow in clumps that protect themselves ...