This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. We see evidence of the kill first: a shockingly broad spread of scarlet, probably the blood of a ringed seal, on snow ...

Revealing the personality of an individual or an intimate group of animals in a thought-provoking or memorable way. Enchanted by its rugged beauty, Sergey finds any excuse to return to Wrangel Island.

Learn about the effects of a changing climate on the Arctic ecosystem and four of its well-known mammals: the polar bear, the walrus, the Arctic fox and the beluga whale. The term “climate ...

I’m a polar scientist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, studying how our planet’s changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecosystem of the Canadian High Arctic. I joined a team ...

The Trump administration formally announced Thursday that it planned to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the ...

All of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain and most of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska will be fully ...