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A natural remedy that has previously helped counter oil spills will be too slow to "do any useful work" if there's a spill in the Canadian Arctic, increasing chances of "catastrophic" harm, ...
Melting sea ice has been a challenge for wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic. A recent study published in Global Change Biology demonstrates how the changing environmental conditions are leading ...
Although scaled back, the ConocoPhillips project known as Willow represents a major expansion of fossil fuel development in a sensitive part of Alaska.
At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and scientists like Geoff York.
Sinogene launched its Arctic wolf cloning project in 2020, in collaboration with the polar theme park Harbin Polarland, it said in a statement posted on the Twitter-like platform Weibo.
Along coastal regions in the Northwest Arctic, a staple fish may be expanding its habitat because of warming waters. That is a key finding from a two-year study that monitored sheefish movements ...
The Biden administration says it will decide by the end of February whether to allow ConocoPhillips’ Willow project to move ahead in Alaska’s western Arctic. National environmental groups have ...
Most polar bears live north of the Arctic Circle to the North Pole. This includes Alaska, Canada, Russia, Greenland and Norway.
The Biden administration released an updated analysis of a major Arctic oil and gas project last week that opened the door to approving a scaled-back version of the controversial proposal — a ...
Obama Administration Weighs Risky Arctic Drilling Project in Polar Bear Habitat ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Obama administration announced today that it will consider an oil drilling plan in Alaska — ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has rejected the Trump administration's proposal for Arctic oil drilling. Find out what this means for local wildlife.
To study how long-term isolation might impact future moon colonists, a pair of Dutch architects plan to lock themselves in an isolation pod in the Arctic.