image: The researchers collected data across four distinct tundra regions. view more Credit: Photos: Julia Kemppinen and Peter C. le Roux.

Significantly, tundra regions are warming more rapidly than any other type of environment, or "biome", on Earth. "Temperatures in the Arctic have risen by about 1 degree Celsius [1.8 degrees ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 35 (September 1, 2020), pp. 21480-21487 (8 pages) The Arctic is one of the least human-impacted parts of ...

Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome. Nature Communications, 2020; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18479-5 ...

Even in the icy tundra, we arrive at the inevitable conclusion that a) increased atmospheric CO2 benefits plants, and b) increased temperature does not impede the ability of plants to benefit from CO2 ...