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Some 400,000 years ago, Greenland was, well, green. In fact, it was an ice-free tundra landscape – perhaps covered by trees and roaming wooly mammoths.

Warmer temperatures in Alaska are giving farmers flexibility to plant a wider range of crops over a longer growing season. One farmer says the secret to his bounty is soil enriched by flooding rivers.

Nearby, Collapsing Pillar, 2020, a towering pile of icy tundra slabs teeters as it leans against the gallery wall, appearing as if its clumsy supports could give way at any time. While fully secured ...

In recent years, researchers have documented beavers setting up their dams in these treeless landscapes, and more lakes are now pocketing the tundra.

The arctic map concept's snow-covered landscape encompasses both lowland areas such as icy tundra and frosty woods, alongside higher altitude alpine peaks and sheer cliff faces, under a Northern ...

Even in the icy tundra, we arrive at the inevitable conclusion that a) increased atmospheric CO2 benefits plants, and b) increased temperature does not impede the ability of plants to benefit from CO2 ...

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average, triggering extreme weather events that threaten to transform the icy tundra into a desolate landscape of dead vegetation.