A new study finds that Arctic ringed seals face a double threat from climate change and long-lasting pollutants.

Arctic temperatures can cause malnutrition in Arctic seals, intensifying risks to Inuit food security and northern ecosystems ...

Learn how glacier fronts in Greenland concentrate polar cod and create critical feeding grounds for ringed seals.

A single year of warmer-than-average Arctic temperatures can cause malnutrition in Arctic seals, intensifying risks to Inuit ...

A ringed seal (Pusa hispida) peaks its head above water in the Laptev Sea near Bolshoy Begichev Island, Russia. ( Кирилл Уютнов/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) DENVER (CN) — The Ninth Circuit ...

A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed the National Marine Fisheries Service’s 2024 decision rejecting attempts to strip Arctic ringed seals of Endangered Species Act protections. The 9th U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO— The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a rejection of the state of Alaska’s petition to strip the Arctic ringed seal of protection under the Endangered Species Act. “I’m so ...

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 ...

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 ...

A ringed seal peers out from a snow cave. Ringed seals depend on sea ice and on the snow that accumulates atop the ice. (Photo by Brendan P. Kelley/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/NOAA ...