This experiment showed that the ice adhesion of unwashed polar bear fur is exceptionally low. While the often-accepted threshold for “icephobicity” is around 100 kPa, the unwashed fur measured as ...

Frostpaw the polar bear with the melting ice bear. Artist Mark Coreth and his team from the Ice Bear Project carved this beautiful polar bear out of ice on December 5, 2009, in Copenhagen’s Nytorv ...

Climate change news: Melting ice could create chaos in US weather and quickly overwhelm oceans, studies warn In the southern Beaufort Sea, where he conducts his research, Atwood said bears are ...

Scientists monitor polar bears because, like you said, the Arctic ice is declining – and it’s happening fast. The ice is melting because of global warming. When humans burn fossil fuels like ...

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 ...

He has been studying polar bears for the past 12 years and says melting sea ice makes it harder for bears to hunt seals. "That tends to be the trigger for bears to either stay with the sea ice as ...

is a hybrid animal that's the result of crossbreeding between a polar bear and a grizzly bear, two species typically separated by geography and habitat. As climate change causes sea ice to melt ...

Ice-repelling properties of polar bear fur sebum offer sustainable solutions for preventing ice buildup on infrastructure.