National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric ... Ikummaq tells me the names for a few Arctic animals. An aarluk—“kills everything”—is a killer whale; a tingugliktuq—“bad liver, ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the blue light of an early Arctic morning ... Is the measure of an animal’s wildness equal to the distance ...

The Arctic is home to pristine artifacts. A few archeologists are rushing to find them, and the critical clues they can offer ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... by challenges that would turn other animals aside. An arctic tern on its way from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska ...

But at National Geographic’s request ... A few hundred beavers won’t reengineer the Arctic. But the animals may be heading north in Canada and Siberia too, and they reproduce quickly.

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... There’s no place quite like it in the world.” Though Arctic animals have long flourished on Wrangel, people ...

Photographing in the Arctic involves ... are such photographed animals that I found getting close and intimate gave me the best images. PHOTOGRAPH BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVEWORKS On the ...

National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video about the animal.

Great horned owls are adaptable birds and live from the Arctic to South America ... and use their powerful talons to kill and carry animals several times heavier than themselves.

This article is adapted from Joel Sartore’s new book, Vanishing, published by National Geographic Books. Joel Sartore has been photographing animals for his Photo Ark project for 13 years.