A few dozen birdwatchers gathered in the predawn darkness to wait for the moment when thousands of migrating snow geese ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...

New research shows polar bear encounters often increase due to longer ice-free seasons, not widespread starvation, reshaping ...

Scattered across our planet's vast oceans lie forgotten fragments of land, each harboring secrets that time has tried to ...

In the waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic, a remarkable creature glides silently through the darkness. The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) isn't just another marine predator; it's a ...

From shorebirds flying between their Arctic breeding grounds and southerly foraging ranges to freshwater fish returning to native spawning streams, migratory animals are struggling. About half of all ...

For about three decades, beluga whales and bottlenose dolphins greeted more than a million annual visitors to Marineland of Canada. In the sprawling 162-hectare (400-acre) theme park, located a ...

NOAA biologists count the whales annually on their migration south starting in January, and this is the seventh year the ...

The Arctic is emerging as a maritime crossroads where environmental risk, economic ambition and intensifying geopolitical ...

Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming and disrupt ocean currents, on top of the consequences for people and wildlife that ...

Melting ice is an emblem of climate change. For sea ice, the Arctic has been grabbing most of the headlines for its truly ...

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