The snowy white tundra swan breeds in the Arctic and migrates many miles to winter on North America's Atlantic and Pacific coastlines, bays, and lakes. The eastern population frequents the ...

Scientists in northwest Wyoming found remnants of an ancient forest, frozen in ice on a barren tundra in northwest Wyoming. Uncovering the rest of the story is a race against time. The ghostly ...

snowy tundra, helping it avoid detection by predators. Even other species of birds and even polar bear cubs use camouflage to make it difficult for prey to spot them. Beneath a thick snowpack ...

Winter’s blank landscape of virtually nothing but snow would have an ill-equipped ... shambling around the region’s subarctic forest and tundra awaiting the freeze-up of Hudson Bay, move ...

The temporal and spatial snow cover dynamics is the primary factor controlling the plant communities' composition and biogeochemical cycles in arctic and alpine tundra. However, the relationships ...

The remains of an ancient forest have been discovered in a popular hiking area of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by backcountry hiking trails, the Beartooth plateau is a frozen tundra that sits at ...