Reviewing photos from his wild encounter, Narkevicius realized what animal he’d actually captured on camera. “This is not a ...

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

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 ...

Study reveals dramatic increases since the late 1980s, signaling potential future stress for bears already coping with a ...

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 ...

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

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

icy waters of the Arctic. The sea sponges survive by feeding on the remains of worms and other extinct animals that perished thousands of years ago, they suggest. Sponges are very simple ancient ...

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

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently vanished after "completely melting" away.

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 ...

Stories have surfaced of animals fighting off new diseases and ... These are the obvious changes from warm temperatures pushing Arctic sea ice to new lows over the past four decades, shrinking ...