The polar regions are the coldest places on Earth. During the summer, the poles receive 24 hours of sunlight, but during the winter the sun is rarely visible. Animals that inhabit nature’s freezers ...

Researchers conducting a study of the polar desert ecosystem surrounding Canadian Forces Station Alert (at the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada) tracked 25 Arctic hares to ...

Kobuk Valley National Park is one of Alaska’s wildest places, home to caribou herds, brown bears, wolves, wolverines, and more.

Alaska has no wild rabbits. We only have hares: varying hares — we call them snowshoe hares — and Arctic hares. Arctic hares are the largest wild lagomorph — family of rabbits, hares and pikas — in ...

In the Arctic, winter can last for months without a single ray of sunlight, yet life there never completely stops. Beneath ...

As winter blankets the Northern Hemisphere, several animals undergo a remarkable transformation, donning white coats for ...