As the Arctic warms, concern for the plight of Santa ... was a dietary shift away from low-growing mosses and towards grass-like “graminoid” plants. “The erect nature of the graminoid ...

Source: Business Insider For example, reindeer in the Arctic typically dig under the snow to find food like lichens and grass in the winter. Source: Business Insider, Science Daily ...

grass, moss, even surface peats. Wet landscapes like bogs, fens, and marshes are also becoming vulnerable to burning. The team has been tracking fire activity in the Russian Arctic in real time ...

“This is an important, and overlooked, factor we need to consider as we seek to more fully understand climate change impacts on tundra vegetation in the Arctic.” Muskoxen graze in Greenland. (Eric ...

I'm talking about the Arctic, of course, where cold and darkness reign supreme. The Arctic Circle doesn't even see the sun for six months of the year, so what we could consider to be summer is ...

A rainy Arctic loses its snow cover more quickly ... Caribou and other grazing animals couldn't eat grass because it was covered with ice. "These freezing rain events can be devastating, because ...

Arctic warming hasn’t helped much at Meadowbank ... Hand-painted signs point to mastodon femurs, horns of steppe bison, and blades of grass as green as the day they froze 25,000 years ago.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mid-June on Vestvågøy island, Lofoten, in northernmost Norway, and the verge is flecked with magenta ...

The Arctic’s climate is warming twice as fast ... The fires burn away the top layer of moss and grass, and burn into the peat, which is a dense layer of ancient plant material.

Instead, the pack moved on to hunt arctic hares in the grass around the airfield. The matriarch hadn’t shown much interest in my friends and their cameras, though she allowed them intimately ...

None of those animals roam the Arctic today. The ancient herbivores ... “Our study really questions the whole concept that a grass system was necessary to sustain the megafauna,” Willerslev ...