Related: See the Winners of 2024 Comedy Wildlife Awards: ‘Stuck Squirrel,’ ‘Smooching Owls,’ ‘Awkward Smiley Frog’ and More An official photo description reveals what happened before the bear settled ...

Photons filter down through the atmosphere and are eagerly absorbed by light-powered organisms such as plants and algae ... Every winter in the high Arctic, for example, the sun, hidden by ...

Some of these plants may survive from a time when hardwood forests covered the region During the short summer of northern Greenland tiny blossoms emerge from crevices in bare rock.

The buttercup is found only in the Kigluaik Mountains on the Seward Peninsula in Western Alaska. The Arctic flower is imperiled by climate change, facing threats from increased precipitation, rapidly ...

An official photo description reveals what happened before the bear settled into the field of Arctic flowers, allowing Paetkau to capture the "surreal" winning shot. "A majestic polar bear ...