Overwhelming scenery. Overwhelming distances. Overwhelming daylight. Overwhelming adventure. That word — overwhelming — describes the more than 1,400-mile Alaska-Canadian Highway (ALCAN) that links ...

Discusses the tundra biome, highlighting its extreme climate characterized by low temperatures and a short growing season. It describes the unique adaptations of tundra wildlife, such as the muskox ...

The Fabulous Ordinary” is the perfect title of Georgann Eubanks’ new book. Its full title is “The Fabulous Ordinary ...

There’s no way to completely avoid microplastics. The good news is that there are steps you can take to reduce your ...

Dozens of wolverines trapped on the tundra by researchers and outfitted with satellite collars are revealing how the animals live ... appears to be melting an average of one day earlier every ...

Having abandoned the island in 1992, the human population of this extremely remote island was soon replaced by a pack of ...

No roads traversed the spruce forest and boggy tundra. Rivers scrawled in great ... to help prevent this happening to our land and our animals and our water and our people,” Vent, now 24 ...

Imagine a place where golden caribou herds roam beneath endless summer skies, polar bears dig dens deep into wind-scoured ...

From the tiny, silly-looking sun bear to the iconic polar bear, these animals are specially adapted to different environments, including forests, mountains, icy tundra, deserts and swamps.

The treads leave dark trails in the tundra, the blanket of spongy brown ... the sea ice and we don’t know how that will affect the animals that depend on it. At this time there is no effective ...

Since 1880, average global air temperature has risen ... Human consumption of animals is impacting species worldwide. Over the past 2000 years, the spread of human societies throughout islands ...

The Arctic continues to warm at a faster rate than the global average. This is shown in the recent Arctic Report Card for ...