Between snowy winters and holiday songs, many animals come to mind during Christmas. There are polar bears wearing Santa hats and red-nosed reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh. Turtle doves and the ...

Well, well, well. How inconvenient. Exactly 20 years after climate change was catapulted to the top of the political agenda, the poster creature of the crisis – the polar bear – appears to be doing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, expeditions finished in northern Quebec and the Northwest Territories. The remaining action focuses on Ellesmere Island ...

When it comes to Arctic apex predators, the polar bear is the first animal that typically comes to mind. It’s a top predator, feasting on seals and occasionally other sea mammals. Its hunting skills ...

It’s one of the most pressing questions facing climate scientists today: how vulnerable are the vast ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica to rising temperatures? An unfathomable amount of ice is ...

Jerry says he has heard that if we had no land masses on Earth there would be no polar ice caps. That’s not necessarily true, but ice caps do form more easily on land than on the ocean because snow ...