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 ...
Three Arctic seal species have been moved up to higher threat categories on the IUCN Red List, with one now endangered and two now near threatened. Global warming is melting away the sea ice they need ...
On Sept. 24, 2025, a rumor spread online that Norway's engineers had created a novel invention to help Arctic seals: floating "ice pods" that give the animals somewhere to "rest, raise pups, and ...
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 federal judge in Alaska this week vacated the designation of giant swaths of waters as critical habitat for two species of threatened Arctic Alaska seals. The state of Alaska sued the National ...
Deputy Lead Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder Twila A. Moon receives funding ...
Engineers in Norway created floating artificial "ice pods" for seals to replace the animals' vanishing habitat of Arctic sea ice. Rating: False (About this rating?) On Sept. 24, 2025, a rumor spread ...