In an interdisciplinary cooperation project of the EU-projects FACE-IT, ECOTIP, and SEA-Quester, scientists investigated the ...

Using CRISPR, a powerful gene-editing tool, they targeted ten genes in mice associated with traits like hair length, texture, ...

Observed ecosystem-level changes in the Arctic include the disappearance ... which has been linked to declines of the smaller, less dominant tundra-dwelling Arctic fox. DECLINES AND EXTINCTIONS.

Sweden’s northern landscapes host unique ecosystems that are rich in biodiversity from sprawling forests to vast wetlands and ...

Embark on an awe-inspiring journey to the heart of the Arctic in "1000 Jours Pour La Planète – Part 1". This first chapter ...

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 snowy white tundra swan breeds in the Arctic and migrates many miles to winter on North America's Atlantic and Pacific coastlines, bays, and lakes. The eastern population frequents the ...

The temporal and spatial snow cover dynamics is the primary factor controlling the plant communities' composition and biogeochemical cycles in arctic and alpine tundra. However, the relationships ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of ...