Some of these plants may survive from a time when hardwood forests covered the region During the short summer of northern Greenland tiny blossoms emerge from crevices in bare rock.

Photons filter down through the atmosphere and are eagerly absorbed by light-powered organisms such as plants and algae ... Every winter in the high Arctic, for example, the sun, hidden by ...

The Arctic flower is imperiled by climate change ... four times faster than the rest of the planet and recent modeling has shown that many Arctic plants may lose all their suitable habitat as soon as ...

This arctic blast has certainly done ... burned off a lot of the buds and the existing flowers, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the plant’s dead.” Stagg says when cutting back your ...

Scientists of the Urals Federal University will try to grow in Yal-Sala (the Yamalo-Nenets Region) irises, barberry, Hungarian lilac and other plants, which are not typical for the Arctic ...

This plant has no stem or leaves, instead it is a parasite on a vine. By feeding on its host, rafflesia is able to produce the world's biggest flower, a metre across. Its success depends on ...