In 1958, Disney released a wildlife documentary called "White Wilderness." One scene depicts a tiny, brown-furred rodent — a lemming — scuttling about in the Arctic snow. "There is an actual living ...

Research shows a decline in lemming populations due to warmer winters, disrupting ecosystem dynamics and predator-prey relationships. Lemming populations throughout Scandinavia tend to explode ...

Global warming and resultant climate change seem to be the culprit for shrinking lemming populations in Norway, says a new study. Lemming populations throughout Scandinavia tend to explode naturally ...

Changing weather patterns, producing the wrong kind of snow, have transformed the population dynamics of lemmings in northern Scandinavia. The knock-on effects have been felt throughout the ecosystem.

"Our findings indicate that the Norwegian lemming is among the most recently evolved mammals, diverging from its sister taxon, the Western Siberian lemming, at a remarkably shallow time depth. After ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Lemming numbers are dwindling in Norway because of climate change, ending a historic cycle of population booms and busts that inspired a myth of mass suicides by the rodents, ...

One myth deeply entrenched in our language is that of the "Lemming Suicide Plunge" - where lemmings, apparently overcome by deep-rooted impulses, deliberately run over a cliff in their millions, to be ...

They are small. They are angry. And every four years or so they appear in masses, seemingly from nowhere. Meet the Norway lemming, perhaps the most misunderstood and mysterious animal of the ...

Climate change is bringing wetter winters to southern Norway, a bleak prospect for the region's lemmings. Scientists found that numbers of the animals no longer vary over a regular cycle, as they did ...