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Stepping nimbly across the high alpine terrain of Peak 1 recently, I remembered a lesson I learned years ago on a family vacation out West: Step carefully, as what’s underfoot is alive – and fragile.

A week ago Sunday, Arctic sea ice cover reached its lowest extent ever recorded. For good reason, there has been significant media focus on how a warming sea gobbles up the ice that is polar bear ...

Biomes are large-scale ecosystems. The surface of the Earth can be divided according to biomes. Tundra Cold, dry climates found almost entirely in the far north of the planet. Permafrost prevents ...

The animals in a biome depend on plants for food. The plants in a biome can also depend on the animals to spread pollen and seeds so new plants can grow. So both plants and animals rely on each other ...

Biomes are the world's major habitats. We identify biomes by the vegetation and animals that populate them and determine the location of each by the regional climate. The tundra biome is characterized ...