The news that the frigid Arctic tundra ringing the polar region has switched from being a net absorber, or "sink," of ...

The Arctic tundra has historically helped reduce global emissions. But rising temperatures and wildfires in the region are ...

Now, as the Arctic climate warms at rates up to four times faster than the planet's average, snow is disappearing sooner in ...

Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the region to release more carbon dioxide than its plants remove, probably for ...

The Arctic is also important for global weather as it drives oceanic and atmospheric currents in lower latitudes. It’s one of ...

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’.

The tundra biome contains only about 3% of the world’s flora. Up to 60% of the flora can be made up of long-lived hemicryptophytes. Windy conditions and low temperatures select for low growing ...

Some of the world’s main biomes include rainforest, desert, savannah, grassland, woodland and tundra. Each biome has characteristics that make it unique, for example Alaska is a type of tundra.