Climate change is scary news for seals in many more ways than one. Besides degrading and eliminating necessary sea-ice habitat, warming depletes their prey, makes them more vulnerable to predators and ...

When a ringed seal pup wakes up, all she sees around is blue ice. From the first moments of her life in an ice cave to venturing out to the Arctic on her own, every step of the pup is described in the ...

A recent study reveals that the Saimaa ringed seal is evolutionally much more differentiated than previously known. Indeed, researchers suggest that instead of a subspecies, it should be considered ...

When a ringed seal pup wakes up, all she sees around is blue ice. From the first moments of her life in an ice cave to venturing out to the Arctic on her own, every step of the pup’s journey is ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A seal that depends on Arctic sea ice for reproduction will receive threatened species protection, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. A three-judge panel ...

Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game has criticized the federal government’s rejection of its petition to delist Arctic ringed seals as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. “Ongoing research ...

On Wednesday, the National Marine Fisheries Service ruled against a petition from the state of Alaska to delist the Arctic ringed seal from the Endangered Species Act. Last year, the state of Alaska ...

A ringed seal pup peeks out from its protective snow cave near on sea ice near Kotzebue on May 1, 2011. Ringed seals depend on sea ice and on snow atop that ice. The pups are protected from the cold ...

Since its lowest point in the 1970s, the Baltic ringed seal population has grown from about 5,000 to 25,000 individuals. Behind this increase are hunting bans and the phasing out of environmentally ...

Marking polar bears is always very dependent on weather. Marking polar bears is always very dependent on weather. In spring, with snow on the ice and on land, the light is often what we call "flat", ...