The second largest desert in the world is the Arctic Desert, covering approximately 13.9 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles). This polar desert spans parts of Eastern Europe ...

I’m a polar scientist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, studying how our planet’s changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecosystem of the Canadian High Arctic. I joined a team ...

help spark new life in the surrounding "polar desert" and have provided researchers with rare opportunities to study some of the world's hardiest plant species. The four glaciers — Nukapingwa ...