ABC13 spoke to an NOAA climatologist about the current condition of the polar vortex and where the bitter cold air could linger this winter.

Arctic air temperatures are still increasing at twice the rate of global air temperatures, a NOAA-led report has found. Rapidly rising air temperatures has an effect on wildlife including polar bears.

This photo from Jan. 27, 2019 was taken by the NOAA-20 satellite. Signs of the polar vortex that plunged parts of the U.S. into freezing weather show up as "cloud streets" over the Great Lakes.

A polar bear chased residents near a school in a small Alaska village last week, killing a mother and her 1-year-old son before another resident shot the bear dead, state troopers said. Polar bear ...

This handout photo shows a polar bear that was shot by the police after being considered a threat to people nearby, authorities said, in Westfjords, Iceland, Thursday Sept. 19, 2024.

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Polar animals as inspiration. Polar bears have a thick layer of fat below two layers of fur that help trap their internal body heat. According to Polar Bears International, these layers keep them ...

Despite the name, Bruno was a female bear that lived somewhere between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago and its genome has helped scientists narrow in on this brown bear-polar bear divergence.

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