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 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 has a circumpolar range, meaning that it is found throughout the entire Arctic, including the outer edges of Greenland, Russia, Canada, Alaska, and Svalbard, as well as in Subarctic and alpine areas, such as Iceland and mainland alpine Scandinavia.

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.

The boreal forest is home to many types of berries ; some are confined to the southern and middle closed boreal forest ( such as raspberry ), others grow in most areas of the taiga ( such as cranberry and cloudberry ), and some can grow in both the taiga and the low arctic ( southern part of ) tundra ( such as bilberry and lingonberry ).

However, this name is not used for those like the raspberry that grow as upright canes, or for trailing or prostrate species, such as most dewberries, or various low-growing boreal, arctic, or alpine species.

Fish such as dolly varden and arctic cisco are found in nearshore waters.

Warm-core highs ( such as the subtropical ridge and Bermuda-Azores high ) and cold-core lows have strengthening winds with height, with the reverse true for cold-core highs ( shallow arctic highs ) and warm-core lows ( such as tropical cyclones ).

Lichens may be eaten by some animals, such as reindeer, living in arctic regions.

They continue through an arctic landscape and fly past many sights and animals such as penguins.

Smaller animals, such as hoary marmots, arctic ground squirrels, beavers, pikas, and snowshoe hares are seen in abundance.

Venison originally described meat of any game animal killed by hunting, and was applied to any animal from the families Cervidae ( deer ), Leporidae ( hares ), and Suidae ( wild pigs ), and certain species of the genus Capra ( goats and ibex ), such as elk, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, moose, reindeer / caribou, pronghorn, brown hare, arctic hare, blue hare, wild boar, and ibex but its usage is now almost entirely restricted to the flesh of various species of deer.

Marine survival suits are worn by ship crews operating in arctic and near-arctic waters, and by other people working near water, such as oil rig workers or dock workers.

The main cause of such a dramatic cold snap was an extremely strong storm system separating warm, humid air from frigid, arctic air.

The Pic River 50 reserve is home to many wild Northern Ontario species such as the beaver, moose, woodland caribou, wolf, black bear, white tailed and red tailed hawk, bald eagle, northern flicker, and many arctic alpine plants.

Like all wolves, arctic wolves hunt in packs, preying mainly on caribou and muskoxen, but also arctic hares, seals, ptarmigan, lemmings, and smaller animals such as waterfowl.

Some of Landseer's later works, such as his Flood in the Highlands and Man Proposes, God Disposes ( both of 1864 ) are pessimistic in tone, the latter showing two polar bears toying with the bones of the dead, and other remains, from Sir John Franklin's failed arctic expedition.

At that time, the United States Air Force declared that the " A " Device would be awarded to those who had received the Air Force Overseas Short Tour Service Ribbon for tours of duty in arctic locations such as Northern Greenland and Alaska *.

He befriended assistant curator James Benedict, and attended lectures given by such luminaries as Civil War hero John Wesley Powell and arctic explorer Robert Peary.

Since the batteries of the Dragon and the wires of the TOW would fail due to extremely low temperatures, the M67 was used for units deploying to arctic environments and remained in many infantry units in West Germany, such as the 1st battalion, 15th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division.