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?

A herd of life-sized wooden safari animal puppets will pass though Greater Manchester this week as part of an international ...

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 ...

“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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the Arctic warms, zoonotic infections are on the rise: Shifting animal behaviors and melting permafrost are creating new pathways for animal-borne diseases.

The Arctic is not the most hospitable place on Earth.Some Arctic animals like reindeer have several genetic adaptations to help them thrive there, and one of the region’s top predators is no ...