These Plants Photosynthesize Deep in the Arctic Even When There’s No Light
Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...
Scientists Uncover How a Melting Arctic Is Driving Droughts and Extreme Weather
New research reveals that Arctic sea ice loss can disrupt weather worldwide, making California drier while increasing winter ...
Earth.com6d
Palm tree fossils found in the Arctic rewrite Earth's climate history
Fossil evidence reveals that palm trees once thrived in the Canadian Arctic, challenging everything we know about Earth's ...
Earth.com4d
Arctic kelp is absorbing toxic metals from melting glaciers
Arctic kelp absorbs metals from melting glaciers, increasing mercury levels by 72%. This could harm marine life and fisheries ...
Wilson Center8d
Notes from the Field | Uncharted Terrain: Monitoring Permafrost on the Arctic Coastal Plain
One of these remarkable places is the Arctic Coastal Plain. Whale bone pile, Wainwright, Alaska. Over a decade ago, our ...
Thief River Falls Times & Northern Watch11d
It’s official: Arctic Cat production to be suspended indefinitely by May 22
Scheinoha Reporter It’s been in the pipeline, but now it’s official. On Thursday, Feb. 27, Textron announced that Arctic Cat ...
Phys.org28d
Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age
where cushion plants still play a pivotal role today? In today's Arctic, this supportive quality could actually threaten their own survival. "Since the warming of the Arctic has already progressed ...
Science Daily28d
Models show intensifying wildfires in a warming world due to changes in vegetation and humidity; only a minor role for lightning
Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation ... is the extent to which Arctic wildfires will increase in ...