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 ...

Subscribe for FREE Experiments confirmed these theoretical findings, measuring ice adhesion strength before and after the fur’s natural oils were removed. Researchers found that untreated polar ...

The city centre has been transformed into a winter wonderland with George Street offering ice skating ... is there a beautiful sculpture of a polar bear, but also a throne so you can live out ...

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 ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. We see evidence of the kill first: a shockingly broad spread of scarlet, probably the blood of a ringed seal, on snow ...

A polar bear’s life ... for seals navigating melting ice and raising their cubs is a daily challenge that defines their existence On International Polar Bear Day discover the secrets of ...

New findings based on data from India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest that water-ice on the Moon may be present beyond its polar regions. A recent study, conducted by scientists at the Physical ...

While science has established that there is a strong connection between melting sea ice and polar bears dying off, there is no way to know for certain why this bear was on the verge of death.