Known as the deadliest beasts of the Arctic, these incredible creatures are apex predators that rule the frozen wilderness. Why watch this video? Discover why the polar bear, with its immense size and ...

Because of melting sea ice, it is likely that more polar bears will soon starve, warns a new study that discovered the large carnivores need to eat 60 percent more than anyone had realized.

“The polar bear was miserable,” Mr. Baskaran recalled. “There was no sophisticated air-conditioning system back then, so they had placed blocks of ice in the enclosure. The poor animal was c ...

There are no bears on most of the Aleutians Islands today. But a new study reveals that bears likely lived in Unalaska and ...

The melting of Arctic sea ice in the Hudson Bay is significantly impacting polar bears' ability to hunt, sustain energy and ...

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...

A recent study found that four large glacier basins in East Antarctica have experienced substantial ice growth over the past ...

He explores polar science through the work of leading researchers and examines broader issues, such as how melting ice is beginning to expose microorganisms previously unknown to science.

Glaciers melting rapidly, fields of moss expanding, water streaming off ice shelves once frozen solid: these are just a few ...

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ...

Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find, revealed by the melting permafrost ...