Learn about the effects of a changing climate on the Arctic ... current sea ice extent (updated daily with a one-day lag) as compared to normal The video “A Warmer World for Arctic Animals ...

That shrunken redoubt will be the last stand for many of the Arctic’s wild things. “The animals that depend on the edge of the sea ice for a living will be congregating there in the summer ...

Conditions are so tough that only a heroic cast of animals can survive here year-round. Some, like the Arctic fox and lemming ... provide sweet drinks for the kids, I thought quite charming.

Stories have surfaced of animals such as polar bears fighting off new diseases, and sometimes losing that fight.