The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

In recent decades, the Arctic ecosystem has been transforming rapidly in front of our eyes. The Arctic is warming up four times faster than the global average. As a result, sea ice is melting ...

While species can adapt over time, Arctic ecosystem alterations are too rapid for many animals to adapt, making it difficult to guess which species will prevail, which will perish, and where.

A new study led by researchers at Baylor University and University of Rhode Island has uncovered surprising details about ...

And where there are trees, the animals that depend on them—such as beavers—can thrive. In fact, there is evidence that a forested Arctic is where the beaver’s dam-building skills first ...

Studies of Ellesmere Island’s ancient ecosystem and how animals adapted to survive there are quite timely, because scientists are pondering what future Arctic ecosystems will look like as the ...

A new review on zoonotic infections—diseases transmitted by animals—in the Canadian Arctic provides timely guidance to clinicians as the region experiences heightened global interest as well ...

Thousands Roaming the Arctic. If Colossal is able to produce viable elephant-mammoth hybrids, according to Church, the plan, ideally, would be to have tens of thousands of these animals roaming ...

Aerial photography from the 1950s showed no beaver ponds at all in Arctic Alaska. But in a recent study, Ken Tape, an ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, scanned satellite images of ...

Other animals, like diving seabirds, walruses and seals, then eat those animals, providing this year-round transfer of sea ice carbon into the food web to fuel the ecosystem. 'We think this might be ...

Lesson Plan: Arctic Animals and a Changing Climate. OVERVIEW Learn about the effects of a changing climate on the Arctic ecosystem and four of its well-known mammals: the polar bear, the walrus ...

A warmer Arctic is also creating new ecosystems for animals to move into. The melting permafrost is allowing room for more forests, where ticks can survive. Ticks have become more common in Alaska ...