Provides an introduction to Earth's biomes, explaining how they are communities of living organisms shaped by climate and geography. Key factors influencing biomes include light and water availability ...

Increasing wildfires globally release massive carbon emissions, impacting natural carbon sinks and contributing to global warming.

"The Arctic exists now within a new regime," said ... but this transition may be coming. However, the boreal biome, which consists of coniferous forests such as pine and spruce trees and lies ...

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

The scientists have suggested, and later on confirmed in experiments, that soil microorganisms of Arctic biomes, underlain by the permafrost, have the ability to use diesel fuel as a nutrient.

Biomes are areas of the planet with a similar ... although the top part defrosts in summer and plants such as mosses can grow. In the Arctic, the ice provides a natural hunting ground for the ...