Rising temperatures, increasing precipitation, thawing permafrost and melting ice are pushing the Arctic outside its ...

Arctic Report Card, 97 scientists from 11 countries, with expertise ranging from wildlife to wildfire and sea ice to snow, describe the rapid changes they’re witnessing across the Arctic and the ...

Fires, intensified by climate change, release carbon trapped in soil and plants. More frequent infernos have now transformed ...

Climate change and land-use practices could significantly alter the make-up and availability of wild traditional foods in the ...

Reindeer are a species of deer also known as caribou in certain regions. They are found in the Arctic tundra and boreal ...

The tiny microbes of the Arctic could be in big trouble as the North warms, warns a new study done  in the Canadian Arctic, ...

releasing mercury into the local food chain. Although rivers do rebury some of this mercury into sediment, further research ...

LIFE CYCLE: Arctic foxes live for three to six years ... During the summer months, Arctic foxes collect a surplus of food and carry it back to their dens to bury and store. Come wintertime when prey ...

generating food competition and predation on Arctic species. In the Svalbard archipelago, scientists observed calcifying plankton species of coccolithophores, shelled pteropods and foraminifera ...

This opportunistic feeding behaviour enables the Arctic fox to weather the region’s boom-and-bust cycle of food availability. Arctic foxes are found in the Circumpolar Arctic, a region that ...

This is because of a variety of factors, such as poaching, sickness, food shortages, and climate change. Caribou play a vital role in Arctic ecosystems by helping to cycle nutrients and shape ...