tundra

Hold the Dark is set in the Alaskan wilderness, in an isolated village at the lip of the tundra.

The emissions of frozen CO2 and the tundra around the Arctic Ocean have already begun as it thaws.

Probably the gaily dressed female is a poor mother at best and prefers to join the large flocks of her sex on the tundra pools.

Thus the tundra climate extended from the Scottish lowlands to the south of England, the land being bleak and almost treeless.