While still very cold, the growing season of the Alpine tundra is around 180 days. Plants that thrive in these conditions include dwarf shrubs, grasses, small-leafed shrubs, and heaths.

Plants and trees send their roots into the ground to soak up water and nutrients from the soil. Until now, scientists ...

Experts are Mindblown After Finding Trees Have a Second Layer of Roots Similar to humans, plants have secrets that scientists ...

Scientists collect tundra plant biodiversity data using point framing on Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island in the Canadian Arctic. (Jeff Kerby. The results show how vegetation changes are an early warning ...

The growth of woody plants in Arctic tundra regions affects more than caribou. In northwestern Alaska, where the growth has been most dramatic, it has attracted a proliferation of beavers , for ...

For millennia, the tundra regions of the Arctic drew in carbon from the atmosphere and locked it in permafrost. That is the case no more, according to an annual report ...

An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last 5,500 years encased in alpine tundra.But as temperatures continue to ...