UVA architecture students get hands-on experience addressing the effects of melting snow in Alaska’s northernmost town.

Scientists warn that the Siberian tundra could disappear by the year 2500 if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced. The ...

They're tracking rapid changes across the treeless tundra landscape as the climate warms. NGEE Arctic field observations are fed into a massive computer model of the Earth created by DOE ...

The cold and short growing season precludes trees. Instead, this tundra landscape is populated by small species that hug the ground. But the Arctic is undergoing rapid change. Recent decades have ...

Here we present diffusive and ebullition fluxes collected over several years from 30 ponds and 4 lakes formed on an organicrich polygonal tundra landscape. Water body morphology strongly affects the ...

For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon dioxide sink, meaning that the landscape was taking up and storing this gas ...

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

Arctic tundra becomes a carbon source For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon dioxide sink, meaning that the landscape ...