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

Julian Carolan says researchers are looking at polar bear grease because it repels ice. That property could help replace the ...

or live fat, or both," said Kristin Laidre, a University of Washington marine mammal scientist who specializes in Arctic ...

Their scientific name means “maritime bear”, and derives from this fact. Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice ...

“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 ...

It’s not the white fluffy look-alike our kids snuggle or the cartoon image drinking Coca-Cola or “fat loungers who draw crowds at zoos” or animated replicas who speak to our children with ...

A fat polar bear is a bear more likely to thrive in its extreme Arctic environment. So, when scientists discovered polar bear populations were dropping rapidly, they created a framework to ...