Utilizing one of the longest-running ecosystem experiments in the Arctic, researchers have developed a better understanding of the interplay among plants, microbes and soil nutrients -- findings that ...

The United States needs to develop a comprehensive strategy for the Arctic. Melting sea ice is generating an emerging Arctic economy. Nations bordering the Arctic are drilling for oil and gas ...

Around 10 million animals die from animal abuse, neglect or cruelty every year in the U.S. Cruelty and abuse to animals is correlated to domestic violence and other abuse toward humans.

University of Washington's Laidre said some scientists think the smallest water zooplankton called copepods are the most important animals in the Arctic. They're fat heavy and the staple of ...

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A new peer-reviewed paper presents evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic started in a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where many of the first cases of the disease were identified. The paper ...

SeaWorld Orlando is adding a “flying theater” attraction with scenes from the Arctic. It is scheduled ... shutdown in March 2020. The live animal habitats with belugas and walruses there ...

Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people LONDON -- Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have ...

Jon Fresch / U.S. Army Paul Bierman, Undark Magazine In recent years, the Arctic has become a magnet for climate change anxiety, with scientists nervously monitoring the Greenland ice sheet ...

The division is known as the Arctic Angels and they are normally stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and Fort Wainwright in Alaska. “As the number of adversarial exercises increases ...

Recognizing the Arctic's strategic importance, the U.S. military has focused on growing its cold-weather operational capabilities in the region over the last decade. The U.S. Marine Corps, through ...

Abundant, exposed fossils in South Africa’s Karoo Basin include dicynodont skulls with tusks that curve down and back, like those of the long-bodied animal depicted in roughly 200-year-old rock ...