Tundra

The tundra is melting! Find out why this is matters, and what the results could be for those of us who don’t live in the ice and snow. There’s much more to Earth’s tundra than most of us imagine.

Dividing the Earth up by its biomes is one way of making sense of the different landscapes we see. A biome is a large region of the Earth with its own climate, landscape, plants, soils, animals and water systems, all of which interact to create the biome’s features. Find out how each biome is unique, and what effects humans are having on them.