Despite falling global mercury emissions, mercury levels in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A new study reveals that ocean currents are delivering legacy mercury pollution from distant regions like ...

At the most northerly tip of the UK, looking north from the island of Muckle Flugga, Shetland, the cold wind whips up the sea and gannets dive. While biodiversity loss in the Arctic Ocean may seem ...

Mercury (Hg) is an environmental concern in the Arctic, where high concentrations are found in top predators such as polar bears and toothed whales. Despite declining atmospheric Hg emissions since ...

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

Toxins released by long-extinguished fossil fuel fires and gold smelters are showing up in the bodies of Arctic wildlife, according to new research pointing to mercury released by pollution hundreds ...

After 40 years of oil drilling proposals, hearings, debates, votes, vetoes, lawsuits, environmental studies, protests, petitions and even failed lease sales, there are those who won’t let go of the ...

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the federal budget bill any day now. Though hunters and anglers have been celebrating the removal of Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s public land sell-off ...

June 12 (UPI) --Mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife are on the rise despite reductions in mercury release, according to a new study published Thursday. Researchers from Aarhus University and the ...

The Porcupine caribou herd crosses a river on the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Peter Mather) (CN) — A dispute between the state of Alaska and the federal ...