While many Canadians may not be particularly fond of winter, the season is critical for numerous reasons, especially for the ...

Lawyers for an alleged high-ranking member of the Italian Mafia in Toronto claim evidence is being used against him that is ...

Though over half of 50 states produce at least some crude oil, there are six in particular that are responsible for the bulk of U.S. production.

A new study highlights the importance of caribou and muskoxen to the greening Arctic tundra, linking grazing with plant phenology and abundance in the Arctic tundra. The story of Arctic greening has ...

Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees' ability to store large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. But, an international group of ...

Schaller. The results of the study could also be of significance beyond the Arctic: similar processes are also taking place in other regions with calcium-rich soils. In the long term, it would be ...

“Soils in the Arctic store more carbon than all vegetation on Earth,” Jeppe Kristensen, an assistant professor of ecoinformatics and biodiversity at Aarhus University and lead author of the study, ...

Ecologist Christina Biasi is exploring the conditions under which tiny organisms contribute to permafrost soils emitting nitrous ... locations as found in the Arctic or tundra," notes Biasi.

Ny-Ålesund, a small international research outpost nestled among the snowy mountains and icy fjords of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, is one of the northernmost ...