A new special issue of more than 20 papers—published in the open access journal Arctic Science—presents findings from 30 years of research and monitoring by the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), ...

Ecologist Isla Myers-Smith researches how tundra plants respond to climate change and what it means for future ecosystems. While she's mostly worked in the Canadian Arctic, for the last two years ...

The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature. These changes could transform tundras from carbon ...

Around the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded "regime shifts" ...

The main cause is the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which are mostly produced by deforestation, industrial operations, and the combustion of fossil fuels.