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 ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far ...

"Polar bears in these high Arctic populations aren't used to [freeze-thaw cycles], and that's what we think we're seeing here on these paws." Melting sea ice, disappearing high-fat food sources ...

A study published in the scientific journal PLOS One compared blood samples of polar bears in the Chukchi Sea from 1987 to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some polar bears face starvation as the Arctic sea ice melts because they are unable to adapt their diets to living on land, scientists have found. The iconic Arctic species normally feed on ...

Federal officials have declared that the Endangered Species Act will not be used in the attempt to regulate greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming and melting ice in the Arctic Ocean.