Ice balls on polar bear feet are much less common and some unusual conditions are needed for them to occur.” Laidre and Atkinson believe that a warming climate may have played a role ...

Churchill, Canada — On the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers and scientists like Geoff York. The polar bear capital of the ...

Patience: A polar bear still-hunting on the sea ice of Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada. (Courtesy: Jenny E Ross) In the teeth of the Arctic winter, polar-bear fur always remains free of ice – but how?

“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 ...

A polar bear near Kaktovik, Alaska. New research reveals how polar bears keep ice off their fur. Alan Wilson via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Polar bears don’t have to worry about ...

Site plans show Polar Ice Raleigh is expanding, adding a second ice rink as hockey and skating grow in popularity in the South. The Olympic-sized ice rink located at 2601 Raleigh Blvd. offers ...

Polar bears survive by hunting on sea ice, which makes them especially vulnerable ... the scientists compared the results to 115 historical polar bear samples collected from 1987 to 1994.

A file photo of an (ice-free!) mother polar bear and her cub on the Hudson Bay. (Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images) Preventing ice buildup in extreme temperatures has long vexed industries ...

Jan. 22 (UPI) --A British woman donned a polar bear costume to run a frigid Norwegian marathon and break a world record with her time of 4 hours, 58 minutes and 29 seconds. Gill Punt, 54, a ...

It's an opening 20 years in the making: After two decades, the iconic Polar ... skating lessons, special events and public skating, the website says. Comments on a Facebook post announcing the ice ...

A study found that on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, polar bear populations have seen a 10% loss in their genetic diversity from 1995 to 2016. A 2020 study found that the melting sea ice ...