After locking carbon dioxide in its frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic tundra is undergoing a dramatic transformation, ...

"The concentrations and reserves of organic substances in the Arctic urbanized ecosystems' soils have been studied perhaps even less than in the soils of reference tundra and forest-tundra ecosystems.

The project dubbed Comprehensive Study of the Arctic Tundra soil of the Gydansky Peninsula and the Kara Sea islands is aimed at studying the history of the development of soil cover and assessing ...

A greener Arctic brings new environmental threats, too. Tundra wildfires are now more common, spewing carbon dioxide into the air. By thawing soils and unlocking nutrients for microbes to digest ...

The arctic tundra encircles the North Pole ... So it’s root system is shallow to cope with the thin and frozen soil and the plants grow closely together to provide warmth and shelter from ...

An illustration of the long-term evolution likely to occur as rising temperatures and subsequent thawing of frozen Arctic soils affects the northern Alaska tundra, as predicted by a high ...

how to find one species of tiny insect amidst such a vast expanse of Arctic tundra still frozen solid ... s nest – hidden away in the shallow soil in what used to be a lemming burrow.

Many animal species become smaller or larger in recent decades, with climate change often mentioned as a cause. Red knots, shorebirds travelling ten thousand kilometers every year between breeding ...