A new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports describes the first and only fossil evidence from the High Arctic of the giant, flightless bird...
A partial carcass of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) with signs of weapon-inflicted injuries suggests people lived in the Eurasian Arctic 10,000...
The Arctic polar night is not a period without any biological activity as had been assumed, says a large international team of biologists led by Norwegian...
Warming temperatures are causing mosquitoes in Greenland to grow faster and emerge earlier, boosting their population and threatening the caribou they...
According to a team of scientists led by Dr John Whiteman from the University of Wyoming, polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are unlikely to physiologically...
Thawing permafrost in the Artic and sub-Arctic regions will likely produce a gradual and prolonged release of large quantities of greenhouse gases spanning...
A team of genetic researchers headed by Dr Joao Pedro de Magalhaes from the University of Liverpool, UK, has sequenced the genome of the mysterious bowhead...
Five-meter-high waves have been detected in the middle of the Arctic Ocean by Dr Jim Thomson of the University of Washington and Dr Erick Rogers of the...
High resolution satellite imagery is a very promising tool to track the distribution and abundance of polar bears, say Dr Seth Stapleton from U.S. Geological...
A new study on the teeth of extinct sand tiger sharks Striatolamia macrota and Carcharias spp. has provided the first estimate of Eocene (50 million years...
The exciting discovery of an extinct species of Tibetan fox adds more credence to the out-of-Tibet hypothesis, in which the Tibetan Plateau served as a...
A team of researchers from Canada has announced the discovery of the Earth’s highest latitude perennial spring, located in the polar desert of the Canadian...
A new study reported in the journal Nature Climate Change questions fears that Europe and North America will experience more days of cold weather over...
Radiocarbon dating of ancient moss clumps on Baffin Island in the Eastern Canadian Arctic suggests that local summer temperatures during the past 100 years...
Geologists from the University of Saskatchewan and the Geological Survey of Canada have discovered a massive meteor impact from at least 130 million years...
Researchers have discovered a massive bloom of phytoplankton beneath ice-covered Arctic waters. Until now, sea ice was thought to block sunlight and limit...
