A dogged search for walrus ivory may have brought two unlikely cultures together — the Thule Inuits of the Arctic and the Norse of Greenland — hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus set ...

The study is now published in Science Advances. In Medieval Europe, there was an enormous demand for elite products, among ...

I had expected that walrus may be hard to find, but I did not expect it to be hard to find ice in the Arctic. The Arctic sea ice minimum in summer has reduced by 40% in the past 30 years (NASA ...

As the planet heats up, the summer sea ice and all the superbly adapted life it supports—the bears, the seals, the walruses, the whales, the Arctic cod, the crustaceans, the ice algae—may well ...

The five-year project, in cooperation with scientists from around the Arctic, aims to deliver a whole population census of the Atlantic and Laptev Walrus using satellite imagery and explore what ...

the walrus is one of the Arctic’s most iconic species, and today (Sunday 24 November) is World Walrus Day! There are two main subspecies of walrus, Atlantic and Pacific, with an estimated 25,000 ...

There are two subspecies of walrus – the Atlantic and Pacific – which both occupy different areas of the Arctic. But for both walruses, their world is changing fast. Pacific walruses, like the ones in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Biden administration issued a final rule today allowing oil and gas companies operating in the Beaufort Sea and Western Arctic to harass polar bears and Pacific walruses when ...