As polar ice continues to melt at alarming rates, Arctic and Antarctic wildlife are facing unprecedented challenges. From ...

Ice-repelling properties of polar bear fur sebum offer sustainable solutions for preventing ice buildup on infrastructure.

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...

Scientists monitor polar bears because, like you said, the Arctic ice is declining – and it’s happening fast. The ice is melting because of global warming. When humans burn fossil fuels like ...

Toronto Zoo’s polar bears had an important message about climate change to deliver. It is now always spring for their species due to the melting Arctic ice. Juno the polar bear has made the call, ...

Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar bears floating on ever-shrinking rafts of ice. While impacts such as sea ...

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease ...

This prolonged fasting drains polar bears’ energy reserves, reducing their ability to reproduce and raise cubs. Without ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

He has been studying polar bears for the past 12 years and says melting sea ice makes it harder for bears to hunt seals. "That tends to be the trigger for bears to either stay with the sea ice as ...