Browsing: Arctic

February 9, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAncient seafarers helped shape Arctic ecosystemsHumans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as…

President Donald Trump has been voicing interest in exploiting Greenland’s mineral wealth since his first term in office, when he started talking about possibly seizing the…

In a warming Arctic, noise from growing shipping traffic is interfering with the ability of narwhals to hunt and communicate.For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals…

In parts of the Arctic, polar bears are in decline as sea ice, which they depend on to hunt, disappears. That is not the case, however,…

A new framework agreed with United States President Donald Trump amid his push to acquire Greenland will demand NATO countries ramp up Arctic security swiftly, the…

Another week, another freak weather phenomenon you’ve probably never heard of. If it’s not the “weather bomb” of extreme wind and snow that Britain is hunkering…

Reindeer survive typically harsh Arctic winters by using their specially adapted hooves to scrape through the snow to nibble on the lichen and moss below. But…

new video loaded: Drones Detect Virus in Whale Blow in the ArcticScientists flew drones with petri dishes above several species of whales in northern seas to…

The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less…

December 25, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmBizarre Ecosystem Discovered More Than Two Miles beneath Arctic OceanDynamic mounds made of methane at a depth…