While diving into issues surrounding the Arctic Ocean, researchers discovered microplastics in the stomachs of dozens of seals. The research was published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. It's the ...
FILE - In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...
Mercury (Hg) is an environmental concern in the Arctic, where high concentrations are found in top predators such as polar bears and toothed whales. Despite declining atmospheric Hg emissions since ...
The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...
Toxins released by long-extinguished fossil fuel fires and gold smelters are showing up in the bodies of Arctic wildlife, according to new research pointing to mercury released by pollution hundreds ...
As temperatures rise, reindeer face a growing struggle to reach the lichen they depend on. More frequent and intense droughts, storms and heat waves, melting glaciers, warming oceans and rising sea ...
Even as global emissions plateau, new research shows that wildlife in the Arctic is exposed to rising levels, posing a risk to those who eat it. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Levels of mercury in Arctic ...
The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the federal budget bill any day now. Though hunters and anglers have been celebrating the removal of Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s public land sell-off ...
The loss of Arctic sea ice has long been a graphic measure of human-caused climate change, with wrenching images of suffering polar bears illustrating a worsening planetary crisis. Now, new research ...
Climate change is having a profound impact on. We know that the region is warming significantly faster than the global average, resulting in the melting of sea ice and disrupted habitats.
The Porcupine caribou herd crosses a river on the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Peter Mather) (CN) — A dispute between the state of Alaska and the federal ...
June 12 (UPI) --Mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife are on the rise despite reductions in mercury release, according to a new study published Thursday. Researchers from Aarhus University and the ...