The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

While many animals are increasingly at risk of disappearing forever, the updated list shows how species can come back from the brink with dedicated effort.

On July 8, Congressman Nick Begich III, an Alaska Republican, introduced an amendment to the Marine Mammal Protection Act ...

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

The Trump administration on Monday proposed allowing companies searching for oil and gas deposits in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to disrupt polar bears living there.

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 ...

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

Along the frosty coast of Hudson Bay, hundreds of polar bears have been wandering for weeks, waiting for the wintertime sea ice to form so they can return to hunting ringed seals.