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.

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.

Arctic animals, like polar bears and seals, could face challenges as they rely on ice for their survival. Additionally, non-native fish of invasive species may migrate to the warmer waters, ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

BY JASON BITTEL. Tourists in Hudson Bay, Canada, are usually most eager to see polar bears.But in November of 2012, it was a snowy owl and an Arctic fox that stole the show.. Over the course of ...

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 ...