What does it mean to be picture perfect? Just take a hike along the tundra regions of Western Canada, and the significance of that phrase will become clear to you.

We identify biomes by the vegetation and animals that populate them ... cold temperatures and treeless, frozen landscapes. There are two types of tundra: Arctic and alpine. The Arctic tundra ...

The extremely cold temperatures of the tundra, combined with the lack of precipitation makes for a rather barren landscape. But there are a number of plants and animals that still call this ...

The muskox is a living relic of the Ice Age, built to endure the harshest conditions of the Arctic tundra ... animals embody resilience and strength in one of the world’s most unforgiving ...

WITHIN the last dozen years the author has seen the tundra and coniferous forests of ... From her observations she has put together a picture of animal life in these widely different environments ...

Sea ice-dependent animals can also be forced ashore or ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon dioxide sink ...

A new review on zoonotic infections (diseases spread by animals) in the Canadian Arctic offers important guidance to clinicians, as the region gains global attention and climate change raises the ...

For millennia, the Arctic tundra has helped stabilize global temperatures ... the last few decades as global warming transforms the landscape to which they’ve adapted, for example.