The Arctic isn’t disappearing; it’s re-emerging. Change is painful, if you believe that a sense of place is about your intimate relation to the animals who ...

The rehabilitation of the gene bank operated by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) ...

Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds ...

Off the coast of Tonga, a rare white humpback whale swims closely alongside its mother. Photographer Jono Allen caught the extraordinary moment in a photograph (seen below) that just earned top honors ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Snow-covered mountains surrounding Longyearbyen in Svalbard. Photo by Colin Ruthven on Unsplash There are no outward signs of jitters, at least not yet: people in Svalbard are going about their daily ...

There are no outward signs of jitters, at least not yet: people in Svalbard are going about their daily lives as normal despite speculation that this Norwegian archipelago could be the next Arctic ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Jane Goodall, the late primatologist, was known ...

Ice melt could be temporarily helping polar bears hunt more efficiently, but scientists say it may soon hinder populations.

In 2014, Donald Trump tweeted: "Just out—the POLAR ICE CAPS are at an all time high, the POLAR BEAR population has never been stronger." That claim was disputed by climate specialists, and indeed the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A polar bear with its cub in Svalbard, Norway. Jon Aars / Norwegian Polar Institute In parts of the Arctic, polar bears are in ...

The body conditions of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) populations around the Norwegian island of Svalbard have improved despite sea ice losses, according to new findings. The findings differ from ...