Blacksburg, Va. — Tiny tropical plants survived their continental-drift relocation to the Arctic by adapting to its harsh climate. Research into such adaptations of millennia ago, when ancient ...

A new international study involving researchers from the University of Gothenburg shows that vegetation in the Arctic is ...

Everyone who knows me knows I’m an armchair enthusiast of everything Northern. One entire section of the bookshelf in my library is devoted to books about Arctic wildlife, Arctic peoples and Arctic ...

Scientists journeyed to a stretch of gravel off the coast of Greenland—the farthest north you can go and still walk on land. These photos show what they found there. An Arctic poppy thrives on the ...

Reindeer are a species of deer also known as caribou in certain regions. They are found in the Arctic tundra and boreal forests. Finland is home to a small population of woodland reindeer. Following a ...

Plants of the spoonweed group time-and-again quickly adapted to a changing climate during the Ice Ages of the last two million years. Evolutionary biologists and botanists used genomic analyses to ...

In recent years the Arctic has experienced an increasing number of extreme weather events, which are causing significant dieback of plants in the region. Now a team of researchers from the University ...

Blacksburg, Va. -- Tiny tropical plants survived their continental-drift relocation to the Arctic by adapting to its harsh climate. Research into such adaptations of millennia ago, when ancient ...