Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...

Polar bears don’t have to worry about skipping a wash day. The sebum, or natural oil, on the mammals’ fur helps them survive ...

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease largely removed it performed similarly to human hair, to which ice sticks ...

This experiment showed that the ice adhesion of unwashed polar bear fur is exceptionally low. While the often-accepted ...

As Erling Kagge relates in his thrilling book, The North Pole, the world’s northernmost point has been a lifelong and nearly ...

Polar bear mom and cubs particularly vulnerable The ... which jeopardizes cub survival. The cubs face reduced survival rates during their first fasting period if they fail to gain enough weight.

Nano-physicist Bodil Holst's interest in polar bear fur began while she was watching a German quiz show. "I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared cameras, meaning their fur has the same ...

Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay, the most studied group of polar bears in the world.

Polar bear mom and cubs particularly vulnerable The researchers ... Archer says that shorter hunting periods result in mothers producing less milk, which jeopardizes cub survival. The cubs face ...

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a popular wildlife charity, is being accused of backing the polar bear fur trade while it uses ...

Sea ice is crucial to polar bear survival because they use it to hunt their main source of food -- seals. Polar bears also use the ice as a platform to catch the seals, Archer said. Without the ice, ...