In June 2024, the Eskimo Walrus Commission coordinated with US Fish and Wildlife Service and US Geological Survey to bring ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Melting Arctic ice increases human and animal interactions, raising the risk of infectious disease spread. Researchers urge ...

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The concept of de-extinction has moved from science fiction to a plausible reality as scientists make strides in potentially ...

The Trump administration has proposed gutting NOAA’s cooperative institutes, which study everything from improving lifesaving ...

Climate change is creating new pathways for the spread of infectious diseases like brucellosis, tularemia, or E. coli in the Arctic, according to a broad international consortium of scientists with a ...

Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.

Much of the Trump administration’s attacks on NOAA research center on climate science. The conservative policy blueprint ...

As Arctic ice recedes, orca whales have expanded their hunting grounds, leading to dead beluga and narwhal whales in Northern ...

The findings are part of a growing body of work showing that even in far-flung parts of the Arctic, plastic pollution is ...

Ultimately, there’s less food for the gray whales. “And, those Arctic ecosystems are some of the fastest-warming ecosystem on the planet and they’re experiencing really profound changes ...