tundra

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Mosses are well known for surviving in places that challenge most life, including the Himalayan peaks, the scorching deserts of Death Valley, the Antarctic tundra, and the cooling surfaces of active volcanoes.

From Science Daily

His character, a lute-playing bard condemned to a tundra prison for “grand larceny and skullduggery,” stands before a clemency council, promising his jailers he’s reformed.

From Los Angeles Times

Some 42,000 gallons of drilling mud spewed across the tundra, and several residents later complained of respiratory ailments.

From Washington Post

During the last ice age, glaciers came close to Hocking Hills, leaving behind species, such as eastern hemlock and Canada yew, more often seen on the alpine tundra.

From Washington Post

Wildfires, for example, have broken out this summer in the tundra of Russia’s Far North.

From New York Times