She realized that she had never seen a polar bear covered in ice in any wildlife documentaries, even after they emerged from a dive in below-freezing water. “And then I thought, well ...

water, and ice but are increasingly controversial due to their environmental persistence and potential health risks. The ...

beside a hole in the Arctic ice, a polar bear found something new—Audun Rikardsen’s camera and motion sensor. The bear sniffed the camera, pawed at it, and knocked it into the water.

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 ...

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 ...

A fast-warming Arctic means that sea ice is disappearing for increasingly ... After finding nothing of value in the fuel drums, the polar bear waddled into the water and swam away.

2009. Predicting 21st-century polar bear habitat distribution from global climate models. Ecological Monographs 79:25-58. Durner, G.M. et al. 2011. Consequences of long-distance swimming and travel ...

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species ... by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led ...

“What we ended up doing was flipping it, filling the cuvette with [water], and putting the polar bear fur upside down on top, and then allowing it to freeze, and flipping it back.” They observed that, ...

Polar sea ice has reached record, and near-record, lows for this time of year, pushing the pace of global warming and alarming scientists. The just declared 2025 Arctic sea ice extent winter ...