In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

Melting sea ice has been a challenge for wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic. A recent study published in Global Change ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Loss of ice due to climate change has a direct impact on the ability of polar bears to feed and survive. The bears need platforms of ice to reach their prey of ringed and bearded seals.

The total number of bears with some form of ice-related injury that Laidre and Atkinson identified between them was relatively small—32 in Kane Basin and 15 in Eastern Greenland. But that ...

As climate change brings pathogens into new environments, one of the world’s southernmost population of polar bears — and the animals they hunt — are encountering more than they used to.

The conflation of climate and weather — such as the idea that cold weather or a snowstorm disproves global warming — is a strategy those opposed to climate action have used for years.

The risks to polar bears on our rapidly warming planet is clear: Ursus maritimus treks across Arctic sea ice, which it uses as a platform to hunt fatty seals, typically ringed seals.

Just before 10 a.m., hydrobiologist Jari Ilmonen and his team of six step out across a flat, half-mile-wide disk of snow and ice. For half the year this vast clearing is open water, the tip of one ...

Climate change in the Arctic doesn't just offer a view of the future. It also directly influences worldwide changes across ecosystems, from sea-level rise, to new weather patterns, to altered ...

We were able to count the seals from a plane and therefore able to estimate that there are only approx. 3,000 of these special Kangia ringed seals," says Aqqalu Rosing-Asvid, Senior Researcher at ...

We were able to count the seals from a plane and therefore able to estimate that there are only approx. 3,000 of these special Kangia ringed seals,” says Aqqalu Rosing-Asvid, Senior Researcher ...