Hurricane forecasters will continue to use all available tools, including satellite, radar, weather balloon and dropsonde data, to monitor the tropics and issue hurricane forecasts. But the loss of ...

Polar bears are resilient animals. Scientists issue warning over worrisome conditions that could leave polar bears stranded — ...

A new rule, scheduled to take effect Thursday, follows a series of lawsuits brought by environmental groups claiming that the ...

In October 1955, a polar bear cub, just seven months old, arrived in Madras. It was named Snejhok, Russian for ‘little snow’. According to an article published in The Hindu on October 10, 1955 ...

A male polar bear walking on sea ice in Svalbard. Combined with GPS data, the devices offer a detailed record of how the bears roam, how they rest and what they endure.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has hired a professor who devoted his career to skepticism of the science of climate change for a top position at the federal agency, NPR ...

An assortment of NOAA-funded snow and ice data products — considered crucial by many scientists for polar research — are at risk of breaking, degrading or going dark as the Trump ...

Florida has seen two deadly animal attacks this week — an 89-year-old man and his dog killed by a black bear and a woman killed by an alligator while canoeing. On the morning of May 5, Florida ...

An 89-year-old Florida man and his dog were killed by a black bear, the first recorded fatal bear attack in the state. Days later, a woman canoeing in Lake Kissimmee was killed by an alligator.

A dramatic video captured a man fleeing a charging polar bear in Norway after dropping his gun and hopping onto a snowmobile. The incident reportedly unfolded in Pyramiden – an Arctic town in ...

Stryker, the chief of outreach and collaboration for the United States Geological Survey’s national land imaging program, had flown to one of the globe’s northernmost settlements to see the ground ...

The research team installed time-lapse cameras facing the entrance of each suspected polar bear den. (K.T. Miller/Polar Bears International), Author provided (no reuse) A feat of endurance ...