Researchers conducting a study of the polar desert ecosystem surrounding Canadian Forces Station Alert (at the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada) tracked 25 Arctic hares to ...

How do rabbits survive in the arctic and the desert? Wild rabbits can survive in some pretty extreme environments because they have special adaptations. What do arctic hares need to thrive in the ...

Found along the western coast of the state, Arctic hares’ limited and remote range in Alaska keeps them out of sight to most.

How can the snowshoe hare and Arctic fox thrive in a climate-changed world, where there’s less snow to blend in with?

Aim: The Arctic is one of the planet's most rapidly warming regions, with trends expected to intensify in the future. Projections of shifts in species distributional ranges under future climate change ...

A wide variety of Arctic animals, including polar bears, are being exposed to a tick-borne pathogen normally associated with rabbits and hares, a new study said.

Exceptionally thick (4 m) autochthonous peat deposits were investigated on a high arctic fault block in the foothills of the Grant Land Mountains, northern Ellesmere Island (82°N). These organic ...

The future of Arctic mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes) in western Greenland depends on aquatic habitat and access to blood meals, according to a Dartmouth study. The study found that female mosquitoes ...