The arctic fox ( Vulpes lagopus, formerly known as Alopex lagopus ), also known as the white fox, polar fox or snow fox, is a small fox native to Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and is common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.

Vulpes lagopus ( arctic fox ) sleeping with its tail wrapped as a blanket.

The arctic fox lives in some of the most frigid extremes on the planet.

The arctic fox has such keen hearing that it can precisely locate the position of prey under the snow.

The arctic fox tends to be active from early September to early May.

The arctic fox will generally eat any small animal it can find: lemmings, voles, hares, owls, eggs, and carrion, etc.

During April and May the arctic fox also preys on ringed seal pups when the young animals are confined to a snow den and are relatively helpless.

If there is an overabundance of food hunted, the arctic fox will bury what the family cannot eat.

When its normal prey is scarce, the arctic fox scavenges the leftovers and even feces of larger predators, such as the polar bear, even though the bear's prey includes the arctic fox itself.

* Bering Islands arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus beringensis

* Pribilof Islands arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis

* Greenland arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus foragorapusis

The arctic fox is the only native land mammal to Iceland.

The Arctic Fox Center in Súðavík contains an exhibition on the arctic fox and conducts studies on the influence of tourism on the population.

The abundance of the arctic fox species tends to fluctuate in a cycle along with the population of lemmings and voles ( a 3-to-4-year cycle )..

The arctic fox is losing ground to the larger red fox.

North America is a large continent that extends from the tropics north into arctic areas, and has no major east-west mountain range to block air flow between these two areas.

The Fabaceae has an essentially worldwide distribution, being found everywhere except Antarctica and the high arctic.

This has been supported by some evidence in the arctic ground squirrel.

* T. nativa, which has a high resistance to freezing, is found in the Arctic and subarctic regions ; reservoir hosts include polar bears, arctic foxes, walruses and other wild game.

For arctic people, human and animals are equal-All life has the same kind of soul or " life essence " ( inua ).

Located in a region where the arctic tundra meets and interacts with the Bering Sea, as well as being in a region impacted by past volcanism, Chefornak has many interesting local landmarks.

Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, it is occasionally found in northern Europe, and has been introduced to other temperate regions.

Although each musher has different strategies, each team must have certain pieces of equipment, such as an arctic parka, an ax, snowshoes, and boots for each dog's feet to protect against cutting ice and hard packed snow injuries.

Pond Inlet has a polar arctic climate with long cold winters and short cool summers.

It breeds in the arctic and has a circumpolar distribution through northernmost North America and Eurasia.

Markey sardonically suggested in August 2010 that global-warming skeptics form their own country: “ An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country .” Markey also said that, at the time, 2010 was the hottest recorded year, and " scientists agree arctic ice is a canary in a coal mine that provides clear warnings on climate .”

Vorkuta has an arctic climate ( E ) with short, cool summers accompanied by very cold and dry winters.

The arctic ecology of this area has a number of unique features derived from the extreme temperatures and unique geologic province.

* A lone arctic wolf has a better chance of killing large prey by running alongside it and attacking its neck.

It has the ability to survive in most soil — arctic, tropical, desert, cultivated and non-cultivated.

It has a range of periglacial landscape features, including blockfields, boulder runs and boulder stripes, formed under tundra conditions ( arctic to sub-arctic climate ) during the

Occasional predation on live pups by arctic foxes has also been observed.

Since at least the late 19th century, the river has been known by its English name " Leaf River ", which was probably derived from the arctic willow and birch trees that grow sparsely along its banks.

Section Note: Meconella ( not to be confused with the genus Meconella ) has an alpine and circumpolar arctic distribution and includes some of the most northerly-growing vascular land plants.

Brattahlíð still has some of the very best farmland in Greenland, owing to its location at the inner end of Eriksfjord, which protects it from the cold foggy weather and arctic waters of the outer coast.

) The more positive direction in recent decades has led to lower than normal arctic air pressure and higher than normal temperatures in much of the United States and northern Eurasia.

S. herbacea is adapted to survive in harsh environments, and has a wide distribution on both sides of the North Atlantic, in arctic northwest Asia, northern Europe, Greenland, and eastern Canada, and further south on high mountains, south to the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Rila in Europe, and the northern Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.

Resolute has a polar arctic climate with long cold winters and short cool summers.

It is an arctic specialist, with a circumpolar Arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere.

Three species, the bearberries, A. alpina ( Alpine Bearberry ), A. rubra ( Red Bearberry ) and A. uva-ursi ( Common Bearberry ), have adapted to arctic and subarctic climates, and have a circumpolar distribution in northern North America, Asia and Europe.

* Lycopodium lagopus ( circumpolar arctic and subarctic )

Common Bearberry ; circumpolar arctic and subarctic, and in mountains further south.

Salix polaris ( polar willow ) is a species of willow with a circumpolar distribution in the high arctic tundra, extending north to the limits of land, and south of the Arctic in the mountains of Norway, the northern Ural Mountains, the northern Altay Mountains, Kamchatka, and British Columbia, Canada.