As the Arctic warms faster than anywhere else on Earth, animals that have evolved to survive the cold face unprecedented challenges. While scientists are learning more about how modern wildlife ...

In a remote corner of Northern Norway, inside a dark coastal cave sealed off for millennia, scientists have opened a rare time capsule of life from 75,000 years ago. The bones and DNA traces of dozens ...

Scientists have uncovered the remains of a vast animal community that lived in the European Arctic 75,000 years ago. The bones of 46 types of animals—including mammals, fish and birds—were discovered ...

The remains of animals dating back more than 10,000 years have been found in a cave in northern Norway providing the oldest example of an animal community living in the European Arctic region.

Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was ...

Melting Arctic ice is revealing a hidden world of nitrogen-fixing bacteria beneath the surface. These microbes, not the usual cyanobacteria, enrich the ocean with nitrogen, fueling algae growth that ...

Arctic sea ice helps cool the planet and influences weather patterns around the world, but it is disappearing faster than ever as the climate warms. Scientists have now developed a new forecasting ...