Warming in the southern Beaufort Sea is leading to some surprising biological changes for the region’s polar bears. But recent findings related to the bears’ health warns of other challenges coming ...

The polar bear population in the southern Beaufort Sea -- considered one of the populations most vulnerable to reductions in Arctic sea ice -- dropped by roughly 40 percent between 2001 and 2010, ...

The United States and Canada on Tuesday said they will create a task force this autumn to negotiate the maritime boundary in the Beaufort Sea and resolve the overlap along the continental shelf.The ...

OTTAWA—Canada is set Friday to declare a large section of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic off-limits to large-scale fishing without approval from local authorities, according to people familiar with ...

A beluga whale from the Beaufort Sea photographed in Puget Sound earlier in October, 2021. (Photo from NOAA Fisheries, World Vets under MMHSRP 18786-05) A beluga whale found unusually far south in ...

The coastline of the southeastern Canadian Beaufort Sea is essentially composed of eroding bluffs of unconsolidated Quaternary sediments, complex embayments formed by the breaching of thermokarst ...

Recent observations show that Beaufort Sea ice was not as it appeared in the summer of 2009. Sea ice cover serves as an indication of climate and has implications for marine and terrestrial ecosystems ...