Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Golden autumn sunlight glints through the sedges and shrubs of the tundra in northern Alaska. Winter is approaching, and soon the ...

With soaring lines washed in luminous colors, Moore (Yoshi and the Ocean) traces a year in the life of the arctic tern—an animal that, back matter suggests, may experience more sunlight than any other ...

Arctic terns came back to Juneau in late April to nest at the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area. Gwen Baluss, a wildlife technician with the U.S. Forest Service, ensures their safety. She said signs ...

The Arctic tern is a small seabird with one of the most extraordinary migration stories in the natural world. Every year, it travels from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back, covering nearly 70,000 ...

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