Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Green summer tundra and the rolling Mulgrave Hills in northwestern Alaska's Cape Krusenstern National Monument are seen on July 11 ...

Green summer tundra and the rolling Mulgrave Hills in northwestern Alaska's Cape Krusenstern National Monument are seen on July 11, 2011. The Mulgrave Hills are the farthest west extension of the ...

Foreboding environmental milestones abounded again this year in the Arctic, where experts say dramatic climate shifts are fundamentally altering the ecosystem and how it operates. One recent turning ...

The boreal forest, covering much of Canada and Alaska, and the treeless shrublands to the north of the forest region, may be among the worst impacted by climate change over the next 500 years, ...

The Arctic can feel like a far-off place, disconnected from daily life if you aren’t one of the 4 million people who live there. Yet, the changes underway in the Arctic as temperatures rise can ...

Biomes are the world's major habitats. We identify biomes by the vegetation and animals that populate them and determine the location of each by the regional climate. The tundra biome is characterized ...

Researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland have observed significant vegetation changes in the treeless heath and tundra regions of northern Finland and Norway over recent decades, marked by the ...