Some can live thousands of years, and they can grow in extreme conditions, thriving in arctic climates and withstanding long periods of drought. Lichens have even survived exposure in space on the ...

“For the caribou, these shrubbier plants are crowding out the lichen that are their food source, and so it’s becoming harder for them to get to their food source.” To understand how the ...

The Sámi Parliament in Finland is calling for reform of the Reindeer Damage Act after the March 13 government refusal to ...

Swells of Siberian tundra roll north toward the Arctic Ocean; a reindeer herd grazes ... The reindeer, used to digging through snow to find lichen, their main winter food, couldn’t dig through ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of ...

Some animals, like the seal, can be found in both the Arctic and Antarctica. Seals are protected from the freezing temperature by a thick layer of fat, known as blubber. Lichens and mosses have ...