When thinking about the Arctic, images of snow, ice—maybe even a polar bear—likely come to mind. Located at the northernmost ...

Big Bear Lake accumulated more than 2 feet of fresh snow last week just in time for the 13th Annual Polar Plunge. Brave men, ...

Scientists discovered that polar bear fur’s oily coating prevents ice from sticking, thanks to a unique mix of lipids. This ...

The meltdown extends beyond the Arctic. Antarctica recently flirted with a record low in its own annual sea ice minimum – ...

How many zoo animals can say that they got their very own snow sculpture? Well, these two lucky polar bears can!

Denning begins with pregnant polar bears sealing themselves inside dens dug out under the snow, where they give birth ... We've got a lot of sea ice being lost, so seeing what polar bears are ...

The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and Ice ...

“Czechs are a nation of polar swimmers,” said David Vencl, the organizer of the event. Vencl, a freediver, himself set a world record four years ago in men’s swimming under ice when he swam ...

This year was very problematic for glaciers because there was really little snow in winter ... 2022.Melting Arctic sea ice — mostly in the summer — is making the polar bear population smaller ...

The previous record was 1,799 swimmers who participated in the polar bear dip in Mielno ... record four years ago in men’s swimming under ice when he swam a record distance of 80.9 meters ...