On this side of the Atlantic, people mostly associate reindeer with Christmas and Santa’s sleigh. However, people who live in ...

Aims For informed predictions on the sensitivity of Arctic tundra landscape to permafrost thaw, we aimed to investigate the distribution pattern of near-surface ground ice and its influencing factors ...

A new special issue of more than 20 papers—published in the open access journal Arctic Science—presents findings from 30 years of research and monitoring by the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), ...

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 ...

Global warming is changing the Arctic by causing permafrost thaw, glacier melt, droughts, fires and changes in vegetation. These developments are strongly linked to the energy exchange between land ...