At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and ...

PETER LEOPOLD, NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE (NPI) Wearing a dry suit, Kukliński observes the flora and fauna living under thick, perennial ice. The ice floe and around 15 inches of snow on its ...

Polar bears don’t have to worry about skipping a wash day. The sebum, or natural oil, on the mammals’ fur helps them survive the harsh Arctic weather by making it hard for ice to stick to them, ...

The polar bears pass through Churchill, Manitoba, hoping to catch a ride out of the tiny town on Hudson Bay's sea ice. After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen ...

“We measured ice adhesion strength ... which they would clean with soapstone or dry clay. While other Arctic animals have developed different anti-icing strategies, polar bears’ solution ...

Then the polar bear appears. She’s big ... In between dives they rest on sea ice; dry land is a less convenient substitute. Photograph by FLORIAN LEDOUX Climate models suggest that by the ...

Those temperatures have a particularly damaging effect in the Arctic. Sea ice covers more than 14 million square kilometers (5.6 million square miles) at its maximum point each year. The ice sheet ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

Each decade around 13% of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is lost, but scientists are now exploring whether new technology can help refreeze the sea ice and halt its rapid decline. Such is the rate of ...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice depletion and the formation of Arctic cyclones. Led by Steven Cavallo ...