This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to ...

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The narrator explains their key adaptations and we see them in their Arctic environment ... on their allocated animal and write down the facts about adaptation which are presented.

Native to the Arctic and Subarctic of North America and Asia, they live in scattered colonies to help keep a watch for predators ...

Back in the 19th Century there was a race to map and navigate the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean as a shortcut between the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Explorers would take ships ...

The Arctic is not the most hospitable place on Earth. Some Arctic animals like reindeer have several genetic adaptations to help them thrive there, and one of the region’s top predators is no ...

A court case is under way over whether energy companies can drill for oil and gas in the Arctic. Environmental activists are taking Norway's government to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR ...

Jon Fresch / U.S. Army Paul Bierman, Undark Magazine In recent years, the Arctic has become a magnet for climate change anxiety, with scientists nervously monitoring the Greenland ice sheet ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...

SVALBARD, Norway—Nestled high above the Arctic Circle, the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard is home to hundreds of polar bears and boasts prime views of the Northern Lights. Now the territory ...

The Arctic is shedding ice at a rate of 12 per cent per decade and is set to be ice-free in the summer by the 2030s – regardless of how fast we cut emissions from now on. Meanwhile, in ...