The Arctic is experiencing a steady rise in human-generated underwater noise as melting ice and increasing activity open the ...

Melting sea ice and deforestation are continuing to drive many species toward extinction, with the latest Red List of Threatened Species showing that more than a quarter of all animals, plants and ...

US Navy SEALs and allied commandos successfully executed a first-of-its-kind Arctic Circle drill. Special-ops forces used snowmobiles to deliver an air-dropped package to a sub deep in the Arctic. The ...

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, ...

Three Arctic seal species have been moved up to higher threat categories on the IUCN Red List, with one now endangered and two now near threatened. Global warming is melting away the sea ice they need ...

A ringed seal pup peeks out from its protective snow cave near Kotzebue, Alaska. (May 1, 2011, Michael Cameron, NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center) A national environmental group said Wednesday ...

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Arctic seals have evolved many adaptations to cope with their frosty environment -- one that you might not immediately think of is the bones in their nasal cavity. Arctic seals have more convoluted ...

The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk has begun its season of winter wildlife cruises, with seals and migratory birds the primary ...