Among these animals is the Arctic hare, the largest hare in North America. The Arctic hare has large claws on all four feet, but the ones on its hind legs are unusually long, allowing it to dig into ...

Enormous herds of animals roamed the Arctic tundra thousands of years ago. Just a fraction remain today, but some scientists say they should be brought back to help fight climate change.

In contrast, with animal herds repopulating the tundra, the ground would only warm by 4 degrees Fahrenheit. That would be enough to preserve 80% of the current permafrost though the end of the ...

Tales from the Tundra: How Arctic Animals Carry Infections. by Adeline Dorcas on Jan 20 2025 10:09 PM. Listen to this article. 0:00 / 0:00.

The Arctic tundra in Northwest Alaska is being colonized by a new species: beavers. Listen now. ... “We can actually see the mark of this animal from space,” Ken Tape, ...

And where there are trees, the animals that depend on them—such as beavers—can thrive. In fact, there is evidence that a forested Arctic is where the beaver’s dam-building skills first ...

The Arctic is warming faster than any region of Earth, with potentially serious consequences for the animals scattered across its 5.5 million square miles of ice, open sea, boreal forest, and naked ...

This shrubification of the tundra challenges animals like caribou that are adapted to low-stature arctic vegetation. For nearly two decades, scientists have noted dramatic changes in arctic tundra ...

Aerial photography from the 1950s showed no beaver ponds at all in Arctic Alaska. But in a recent study, Ken Tape, an ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, scanned satellite images of ...

Dam it — As the Arctic warms, beavers are moving in Scientists are just beginning to study the impacts of beaver dams on the tundra. Sharon Levy, Knowable Magazine - Dec 4, 2022 12:12 pm UTC ...