The tundra swan, also called the whistling ... Hunting drove the great auk to extinction sometime in the 1800s. There are no penguins in the Arctic today. Modern-day penguins live only in the ...

The tundra biome is the coldest and one of the largest ecosystems on Earth. It covers about one-fifth of the land on the planet, primarily in the Arctic circle but also in Antarctica as well as a ...

Penguins are some of the most popular animals on the planet thanks to their outstanding ability to survive in at the south ...

The news that the frigid Arctic tundra ringing the polar region has switched from being a net absorber, or "sink," of planet-warming greenhouse gases to a net emitter, or "source," indicates the ...

The Arctic tundra has shifted from storing carbon in the soil to becoming a carbon dioxide source, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its partner researchers concluded ...

A famously plucky species of penguin, the Adélie is one of two ... from the Canadian alpines to the Arctic tundra. Wherever they're from, they migrate from their autumn breeding grounds to ...

Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’. The arctic tundra encircles the North Pole, extending from the ...

Rising temperatures fueled by global warming are causing forests of spruce trees to invade Arctic tundra faster than scientists originally thought, evicting and endangering the species that dwell ...