Golden autumn sunlight glints through the sedges and shrubs of the tundra in northern Alaska. Winter is approaching, and soon the region will be buried under snow and ice. For the past three months ...

Over its lifespan of about 30 years, a single Arctic Tern may travel more than 2.4 million kilometres. That is the equivalent ...

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining.

As climate change drives earlier spring conditions in the Arctic, bird species that travel there to breed there are under pressure to migrate faster. A new study led by researchers from the University ...

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

Arctic seals and many birds are in danger as ice melts and forests disappear. Green sea turtles show recovery.

Three species of Arctic seal have moved closer to extinction, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now ...

Unless you’re at the zoo, you shouldn’t see a penguin in South Carolina. You shouldn’t see what looks like a miniature version of them either. “We have a mass ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

As climate change drives earlier spring conditions in the Arctic, birds species that travel there to breed there are under pressure to migrate faster. A new study led by researchers from the ...