Nearly two dozen whales have died in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent months, according to animal rescue groups.

Tuesday is "Arctic Sea Ice Day," created underscore the needs of animals in northern Canada threatened by Arctic sea ice melt ...

It's a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear—one of the most dangerous predators on the ...

In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the ...

Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

Melting ice is causing changes to the shoreline, animal behavior and even leading to new archaeological discoveries as ...

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

The majestic ocean creatures are still recovering from a massive die-off in 2019-23 that is estimated to have cut their ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

Sadly, this viral video of a beluga whale playing fetch with a rugby ball is not what it first seems. We reveal the truth.

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

Among these animals is the Arctic hare, the largest hare in North America. The Arctic hare has large claws on all four feet, but the ones on its hind legs are unusually long, allowing it to dig into ...