Arctic landscape

Arctic

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One landmark study suggests that the tundras are shifting their role as a result of climate change turning into carbon sources, with a net positive release of carbon into the atmosphere.

Amidst the recent troubling news that Shell Oil has received conditional approval to drill in Arctic waters, a separate, critical victory for the larger Arctic ecosystem was overshadowed.

The tundra is a vast, flat, treeless Arctic ❄️ region where the subsoil is permanently frozen – or that, at least, used to be the case. A huge study 🗃 that spanned over 3 decades has found that low-lying shrubs, grasses and other plants in the Arctic are getting taller 🌱 due to rising temperatures. The consequences are the following: 1️⃣ Taller plants help make the Earth’s surface darker, allowing the tundra ecosystem to trap more heat from the sun, and start melting💧. 2️⃣ Taller Arctic…

A beautiful sequence of images shows a polar bear hunting for prey by diving headfirst into the snow. Richard Sale and Per Michelsen's book, The Arctic, captures one of the last great wildernesses.

Frozen waterfall inside an ice cave in Breiðamerkurjökull glacier (Iceland)

The Arctic Cordillera Mountain Range is a canopy of shimmering ice caps and enormous glaciers the feed wild rivers and breathtaking fiords and mountain valleys. Is it calling to you now?

Snow covered tussocks in the tundra landscape north of coldfoot, Alaska in the Brooks Range.