The Arctic is heating up nearly four times faster than the Earth as a whole, according to new research. The findings are a reminder that the people, plants and animals in polar regions are ...

Summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean might be gone by the 2030s, no matter what we do to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, ... What does this mean for the people and animals who live in the Arctic?

Arctic animals are exposed to more diseases It’s been harder for Rode, a polar bear researcher for nearly two decades, to do her job in recent years. Every spring, she and her team would sample ...

Stories have surfaced of animals fighting off new diseases and sometimes losing that fight. The bird flu infected and killed a polar bear and walruses in the Arctic for the first time.

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment has shown that sea ice in the Southern Ocean plays a significant ...

Genetic studies show there’s still a lot to learn about cross-species mating in the Arctic. ANIMALS Pizzlies, grolars, and narlugas: Why we may soon see more Arctic hybrids ...

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 ...

Scientists say that PFAS, nicknamed "forever chemicals," are building up in animals like polar bears, seals, and birds and at alarming levels in the Arctic. People living in the Arctic, they add ...

These animals’ success in colonizing the rapidly warming Arctic of the past could help scientists better understand how species might shift amid the current, human-caused climate emergency.

“It’s true that some kinds of animals that you don’t expect in the Arctic are able to colonize it, tapirs, crocodiles, primate-like animals—they can come,” Beard says.

Scientists say that PFAS, nicknamed ‘forever chemicals’, are building up in animals like polar bears, seals, and birds and at alarming levels in the Arctic. People living in the Arctic, they ...