Tag: Arctic

Near-record warming in the Arctic continues to bring in massive changes to the region, according to an annual assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report “describes an...

Polar bears in one of the northernmost populations in the world are seeing some short-term transient benefits from climate change. Climate change in Kane Basin, between northwestern Greenland and Canada’s...

Long-term wildlife movement studies in the Arctic are hard to come by. That’s because they can be expensive, requiring tags that communicate through satellite networks that require subscriptions. When movement...

Seabirds in the Arctic may be removing microplastics from the ocean and dumping them right back on land. “Colonial seabirds could be acting as an important source of microplastic concentration...

When Ray Alisauskas first started researching Arctic waterfowl in 1983, their numbers were on a steady upswing. When he joined Canadian Wildlife Service in 1989, snow geese and Ross’s geese...

Oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s North Slope would disturb fewer maternal denning polar bear mothers if start times are delayed during bear maternal denning periods and if den distribution...

Across the circumpolar north, some Arctic tundra birds, such as waterfowl, seem to be flourishing while others, like most shorebirds, are seeing their populations fall, according to new research spanning...

When spring comes to the Arctic, caribou across Canada and Alaska synchronize the timing of their movement in a massive continent-wide migration to their calving grounds, researchers discovered. In some...

At 35 degrees Fahrenheit, it was a relatively warm day in an Arctic archipelago far north of the Norwegian mainland. But drift ice still floated in the balmy summer water...

Caribou populations are dropping all across Canada, with one herd — the South Selkirk — in British Columbia down to just three females by April 2018. Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herds...