Vancouver Island marmots now number 427 in 35 colonies — up from just 22 marmots in 2003 — in Vancouver Island’s alpine ...

LOS ANGELES — Every year, scientists fan out near Crested Butte to count the yellow-bellied marmots that make their home in rocky meadows bordered by aspen, pine and spruce trees. Over the past decade ...

In her debut as a book author, Josephine Woolington turns back the clock to examine events that have shaped Pacific Northwest wildlife in an effort to provide a deeper sense of place for those who ...

For the past 15 years, Dan Blumstein has been trying to get inside the heads of marmots. This is not an easy thing to do, as some marmots are total head cases. Blumstein is a professor of animal ...

Vancouver Island marmots are hitting the slopes in a race to save their species, which even wildlife conservationists call “unbearably cute.” The woodland rodent, a cousin of squirrels and groundhogs, ...

Climate change is causing marmots to move, but not far, according to a recent study by SLF biologist Anne Kempel. She investigated the altitude at which most marmots currently live and compared her ...

“Take only pictures, leave only footprints,” the old saw goes. But one Colorado hiker brought something much bigger, and furrier, home from a day on the trails last month. Cole Wilson was on his way ...

Demonstrations of coupled phenotypic and demographic responses to climate change are rare. But they are much needed in formulating predictions of the effects of climate change on natural populations.

A yellow-bellied marmot has made it's home under a building at the University of Northern British Columbia's Prince George campus. Researchers say this marmot marks the most northerly sighting of the ...

A new study published this week in the journal Nature says yellow-bellied marmots in Colorado are getting bigger in size and population. Climate change may be the reason. Robert Siegel talks to UCLA ...