You may have found yourself randomly wondering aboutUrsus maritimus, Latin for "sea bear," more commonly known as polar bears. The furry mammals are stellar swimmers and can be found in the cold ...

LYNNWOOD — Jennie Warmouth was awestruck as she watched polar bears, weighing 1,000 pounds or more, lumbering across the Arctic pack ice. Blue whales, 100 feet in length and weighing 200 tons, spouted ...

YOU never forget your first visit to Alaska — especially the Aleutian Islands. When I was commander of the Coast Guard district that serves Alaska, I came to know the waters surrounding the Aleutian ...

Polar bears hold the title of the largest carnivorous land mammals on the planet. They typically measure between seven to eight feet in length. Males are significantly larger than females, with large ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration agreed today to finally make a decision on designating critical habitat in Alaska for two ice-seal species. Both bearded and ringed seals are listed as threatened ...

At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and scientists like Geoff York. Buggies traverse the frozen terrain, bringing tourists ...

The Arctic fox is a resilient and highly adaptable mammal that thrives in some of the world’s harshest climates. Found across ...

Many species of shorebirds that migrate to the Arctic each year to breed their young will lose substantial amounts of their summer habitat to climate change, and the biggest losses in the coming ...

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 using ...

A bearded seal rests on ice in 2011 off the coast of Alaska. (Photo by John Jansen/NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center) After almost a decade of delays, the federal government is moving forward on ...