• How do mountain plants attract pollinators?
  Many mountain plants have large, colourful flowers to attract the few ...

• Which conifer is deciduous?
  Larch is a coniferous tree - because it bears cones. But unlike most ...

• What is permafrost?
  Even where the surface soil in the Arctic thaws in the summer, ...

• Why do the trees lose their leaves in autumn?
  Trees and other plants that lose their leaves all at once each year ...

• Why are there so few plants in the Antarctic?
  Most of Antarctica is covered with snow and ice all year. Only the ...

• What are lianes?
  Lianes, or lianas, are plants that clamber over and dangle down from ...

• Why are there more plants in the Arctic?
  The Arctic is surrounded by land masses from Canada and Greenland to ...

• How much rain falls in the rainforest?
  The tropical rainforests are warm and wet. In many, the rainfall is ...

• What plants do reindeer eat?
  Reindeer (or caribou) survive the Arctic winter by foraging for food. ...

• Why are many Arctic shrubs evergreen?
  Many Arctic shrubs keep some or all of their leaves throughout the ...