The fact that it’s freezing cold on your doorstep cannot be taken as proof that global warming has stopped. The Arctic is ...

Live Science highlights that even optimistic forecasts predict the disappearance of 70% of the tundra landscape. Melting permafrost in the Arctic is associated with the release of massive amounts ...

The arctic tundra often lacks sunshine. Summer days last 24 hours, yet the sun remains low on the horizon. During the winter, the opposite occurs, and the entire landscape is dark. Reindeer eyes ...

These changes are fundamentally altering the ecosystem. For thousands of years, the shrubby landscape of the Arctic tundra stored carbon, but wildfires and thawing permafrost mean that this region is ...

Dr Bierman said: ‘It’s likely that it did not fully melt at any time, which allowed the tundra landscape to be locked away under the ice for millions of years. University of Vermont graduate ...

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

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

In the tundra, sedge meadows, peat bogs, and ponds cover the landscape. In the subarctic ... Canada geese, arctic loons, gyrfalcons, and peregrine falcons. From Winnipeg, Manitoba, fly north ...