How will a warming Arctic affect plant growth on Svalbard? Researchers encased plant plots in a thick layer of ice during the winter and used little greenhouses to heat up those plots in the summer.
Arctic rivers wind through remote tundra and boreal forests, freezing solid in winter and surging each spring with snowmelt, eventually emptying into the ocean. Runoff—water that does not soak into ...
Cold winter light shines on researchers working on a tundra icing experiment in High-Arctic Svalbard. This photo was featured on the cover of the academic journal Journal of Ecology, published by the ...