The meeting of the polar bear range states – the United States, Canada, Greenland, Norway, and the Russian Federation – under the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears concluded on Friday. The two-day meeting in Moscow, Russia, brought together polar bear scientists, wildlife managers, technical experts, and representatives of native peoples of the […]
The seafloor off the coast of Northern Siberia is releasing more than twice the amount of methane as previously estimated, according to new research results published in the Nov. 24 edition of the journal Nature Geoscience.
When Craig Ely thumbed through his collection of photos of Alaska Native kids and biologists gathered in front of an old church, he knew he had to make a yearbook. Not for himself, though he would savor the memories, but for all the kids who had helped him do science since the 1980s.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and U.S. Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) introduced a bipartisan amendment last week that would pave the way for the construction of new Coast Guard heavy polar icebreakers.