The Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica casts a shadow on the ice while traversing the Northwest Passage through the Victoria Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago Friday, July 21, 2017.

Reindeer adapt to the Arctic’s endless summer light and winter dark by silencing their circadian clock. The adaptation may be a general one that helps Arctic animals make the most of their weird ...

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.

Reindeer swimming in the Alaskan Arctic Animals in the Arctic, including reindeer and golden eagles, are migrating earlier due to climate change, say researchers who have gathered a huge amount of ...

As ice melts, animals can travel into previously blocked-off regions—and bring their pathogens with them. ... Environment Animals Arctic critters are sneezing on each other like never before.

When faced with six months of perpetual darkness where snow and ice lay claim to every inch of the land, which animals […] This post courtesy BBC Earth‘s Race to the South Pole series.

Just how and when polar bears adapted to the Arctic is still debated. In this study , a team analyzed the genomes of 119 modern polar bears, 135 modern brown bears, and two fossilized polar bears.

(See pictures of other Arctic animals. They attached 0.03-ounce (one-gram) radio transmitters to 142 individuals of Lapland longspurs, semipalmated sandpipers, pectoral sandpipers, and red phalaropes.

VICTORIA STRAIT, Nunavut (AP) — The email arrived in mid-June, seeking to explode any notion that global warming might turn our Arctic expedition into ...

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 ...

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