(CN) — As ice sheets disappear in the Arctic, scientists fretting about the dwindling populations of fungi and lichen — a plant organism that forms what looks like a crust when it grows on rocks and ...

Tundra diversity, including plants, lichens and fungi, declined over a 15-year experiment in the Arctic due to warming temperatures mediated by the disappearance of sea ice, according to Eric Post and ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

As the evidence of anthropogenic impacts on nature accumulates, it is clear that many aspects of global change are particularly strong in polar regions. Both the Arctic and Antarctica have experienced ...