Some of these Arctic animals you will have seen before, like the polar bear and the snowy owl, while others might be new to you, like the "unicorn of the sea" and the Canada lynx. 1 of 13 ...

Animals across the Arctic are changing where and when they breed, migrate and forage in response to climate change, says a new study unveiling the massive scale of the change. The changes mean ...

Arctic terns migrate around 25,000 miles every year, leaving their Arctic breeding grounds for their winter home in Antarctica, according to The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It's the farthest ...

Animals of the Arctic. May 15, 2006. Caribou look like large deer or small elk with antlers. They stand four to five feet tall and can weigh more than 500 pounds.

With enough animals, 80% of all permafrost could be preserved through the end of this century, researchers believe. Latest U.S.

The polar bear, or Nanook in Inuit, is king of the Arctic. Male bears can grow to be 2.4 metres (eight feet) tall and weigh as much as 815 kilograms (1,800) pounds. Ralph Lee Hopkins ...

Global warming harming plant-eating animals in the Arctic Global warming harming plant-eating animals in the Arctic mongabay.com May 21, 2008 Climate change is making it more difficult for plant ...

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.

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 ...

A herd of life-sized puppet animals has arrived in London, as part of its world tour to raise awareness of climate change.

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 ...