What happens when a husky dog meets a rescued snowy owl? Animals often surprise us, and this interaction is nothing but ...

A natural remedy that has previously helped counter oil spills will be too slow to "do any useful work" if there's a spill in ...

Centuries-old DNA has confirmed that Greenland’s sledge dog Qimmit is the oldest yet known domesticated dog breed, a discovery that sheds more light on their close relationship with the region’s ...

Greenland sled dogs, known asQimmeq in Greenlandic, have long played a vital role in the Arctic, assisting Inuit people in the harshest of environments. But new DNA analysis of both modern and ancient ...

A new study in Science uses ancient and modern DNA to tell the Qimmeq’s story. It’s a story not just about dogs, but also ...

When it comes to dog breeds with uniquely American roots, only one carries the name of a U.S. state: the Alaskan Malamute.

Various types of sled dogs have been used by humans across the Arctic for almost 10,000 years, but new research reveals one ...

Analysis of bowhead whale poop shows that more toxins from typically warm-water toxic algae species are entering Arctic food ...

Moving hot oil across Arctic terrain was an unprecedented challenge following the discovery of America’s largest oil field in 1969 in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.