The Arctic tundra has over 1,700 species of plant. 98% of the continent of Antarctica is covered by ice, in places up to 4.7 km thick. Polar habitats are extremely cold. Temperatures can plunge to ...

The news that the frigid Arctic tundra ringing the polar region has ... However, the boreal biome, which consists of coniferous forests such as pine and spruce trees and lies to the south of ...

As the Arctic summer grows longer and warmer, tundra shrubs grow taller and the ... competing with local Arctic foxes for food and habitat. Sometimes, they come into direct competition with ...

They measure three feet from nose to tail and weigh between six and 12 pounds. HABITAT: Arctic foxes live in Arctic and alpine tundra, in coastal areas, on ice floes, and north of the tree line. RANGE ...

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

Text by Arik Gabbai A female wolverine roams the Arctic tundra at the edge of the Brooks Range, on Alaska’s North Slope. Peter Mather No creature of the Far North is less beloved than the wolverine.

For example, ocean acidification is making Arctic waters unlivable for many calcifying creatures, melting permafrost threatens to drain tundra wetlands, and erosion is degrading coastal habitats.