If melting sea ice and glaciers weren't enough, now climate change is producing what researchers call a "structurally novel ecosystem" in the northwestern Eurasian tundra. Warmer weather and precipitation changes…
In Shakespeare's play Macbeth the forest of Birnam Wood fulfills a seemingly impossible prophecy by moving to surround the murderous king (the marching trees are helped, of course, by an…
A thousand square kilometers of the Alaskan tundra burned in September 2007, a single fire that doubled the area burned in the region since 1950. However, a new study in…
The first ever comprehensive survey of caribou worldwide (known as reindeer in Europe) has found that the species has suffered a staggering decline. Researchers from the University of Alberta discovered…
Sea ice loss may triple warming over northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia Sea ice loss may triple warming over northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia mongabay.com June 11, 2008 Fast-declining Arctic…
Climate change leave Arctic tundra vulnerable to fire Climate change leave Arctic tundra vulnerable to fire Montana State University March 6, 2008 Research from ancient sediment cores indicates that a…
