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.

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

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

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 issued on Tuesday by the ...

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 ...

Tundra describes the Arctic’s tree-less plains, where shrubs, grasses, and mosses grow and take in carbon dioxide through photosynthesis. Plants eventually release that CO2 back into the ...

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 ...

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 ...