Karl Bushby set off from Chile in 1998. Since then he has walked across American and Asian continents, swam 186 miles (300km) ...

It remains to be seen whether the U.S. Coast Guard will expedite the delivery of new polar icebreakers to maintain its presence in the Arctic amid growing challenges from Russia and China.

Polar bears love plunging into refreshing water as well. These Arctic animals enjoy swimming just like humans do, and one zoo shared the cutest video of a polar bear jumping into a pool.

A 2017 study published by the Wildlife Society concluded: “From 1870-2014, we documented 73 attacks by wild polar bears, distributed among the 5 polar bear Range States (Canada, Greenland ...

Tom Cruise’s eighth ‘Mission: Impossible’ took the cast to Norway — where they experienced “polar-bear-related shutdowns,” says director Christopher McQuarrie ...

Despite years of exposure, Svalbard's polar bears showed no signs of emaciation or ill health, according to the team. The local population has remained stable or even increased slightly, unlike ...

Scientists estimate there are around 300 polar bears in the Svalbard archipelago and roughly 2,000 in the broader region stretching from the North Pole to the Barents Sea.

Polar bears present a clear image of climate change in the Arctic, for good reasons (more on them in a minute). In the Southern Hemisphere, penguins are often portrayed as their natural counterpart.

In response, the Polar Bears would score just one inning in the bottom of the fourth, setting up yet another opportunity for Elkins to add to their lead in the top of the fifth. The Tigers would ...

Please, stop hunting polar bears." The CBC reposted the video on YouTube. The video did not sit well with the Nunavummiut (the Inuit people and other residents of Nunavut).

Polar Bear. Photo by Hans-Jurgen Mager, via Unsplash. The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the global average, causing dramatic reductions in sea ice extent, thickness, and duration.

McCall said at the time that polar bears are usually hunting for seals out on the ice in that area, but "when the ice breaks up, they come inland in search of food," per CBC.