Scientists believe that international shipping is partly responsible, as barnacles can travel in ballast water or by clinging ...

Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

More than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk of extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red ...

Three species of Arctic seal have moved closer to extinction, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Today’s update also reveals that more than half of bird ...

Beneath the Arctic’s frozen surface, tiny algae are defying the rules of biology. Their survival strategy not only redefines ...

Scientists for years have alluded to this outcome occurring once ice caps fully melt during summer, potentially prompting an ...

Marine biologist Andy Juhl and his team took the footage while traveling across the frozen Chukchi Sea on snowmobiles.

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 ...

Embedded in the sea ice of the arctic are creatures so small, you can't see them with the naked eye. These microalgae convert energy from sunlight into fuel. The arctic ecosystem depends on them. In ...

Kelps, here Saccharina latissima around Nuuk, Greenland, are brown macroalgae that form dense and extensive underwater forests along Arctic rocky shores. The ecological role of kelps can be compared ...

A new study led by Jochen Knies from the iC3 Polar Research Hub has found worrying signs that climate change may be undermining the capacity of Arctic fjords to serve as effective carbon sinks. The ...