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

“It didn’t leak into our village directly, but the tundra surrounding it and I’m worried about food security because we have a slough just below where the lagoon is located where we fish,” Hill said.

From Seattle Times

You walk 10 miles across frozen tundra just to get milk, uphill each way, and the only froth you see is in the unforgiving sea cresting against the rocks.

From Seattle Times