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.

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 ...

As the Arctic warms, zoonotic infections are on the rise: Shifting animal behaviors and melting permafrost are creating new pathways for animal-borne diseases.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A landmark 2019 report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services found that about 1 million animal and plant species are currently under threat of ...