Stories have surfaced of animals fighting off new diseases and sometimes losing that fight. The bird flu infected and killed ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far ...

Learn about the effects of a changing climate on the Arctic ecosystem and four of its well-known mammals: the polar bear, the walrus, the Arctic fox and the beluga whale. The term “climate ...

These amazing images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show the Arctic animals at their fierce but adorable best ...

Social media users could relate to the woman's fear in the viral clip, with one saying "there is nothing more terrifying." ...

That shrunken redoubt will be the last stand for many of the Arctic’s wild things. “The animals that depend on the edge of the sea ice for a living will be congregating there in the summer ...

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently ...

The presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in all the world's oceans but one has been in steady decline since 2001, ...

Similar "melt ponds" are becoming increasingly common in the Arctic due to climate change and are further accelerating the rate of ice loss across the region.

We, Alaskan Indigenous peoples who have lived along the Arctic Ocean coast of Alaska since time immemorial, respectfully ask ...

Sparse sea ice, thousands of data points and samples, a surprising number of animals and hydrothermal ... a Polarstern expedition to the Central Arctic. After a four-month-long Arctic season ...