With climate change warming the planet, the Arctic ice is melting at an alarmingly rapid rate. In fact, according to NASA, ...

Anyone who has driven a car in Minnesota over a winter or two is familiar with the three basic types of windshield ice scrapers. There’s the one-hander, a sort of short spatula small enough to ...

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 ...

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is the most beautiful place Julie and I have seen. However, you will not find tropical ...

Credit: Kristin Laidre/University of Washington Two bears in particular from separate locations in ... warm spells causing surface snow to melt and refreeze into a hard crust. The heavy polar bears ...

Two Greenland bears at separate locations in 2022 had massive ice balls stuck to their feet ... warm spells are causing the surface snow to melt and then refreeze into a hard crust.

Some of the station’s residents used to sleep in tents, but a few years ago a polar bear ... of the ice sheet appear to be twisting, like a writhing beast. In July, 2012, surface melt was ...

More than polar bears are threatened in this changing gateway to the Arctic, where warmer waters melt sea ice earlier in the year and the open ocean lingers longer. For what grows, lives and ...

Here, we were told to just look around for polar-bear tracks on our descent ... Antarctica’s ice sheet won’t melt away, at least not from the top; air temperatures in the continent’s ...

Scientists have long hypothesized what would happen to polar bear populations in the Arctic as sea ice continues to melt at unprecedented rates. But now they have visual evidence of just how hard ...

Still, the continuous melting of ice is taking a toll on some populations. In the southern Beaufort Sea, where he conducts his research, Atwood said bears are doing "relatively poorly" because of ...