The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and Ice ...

By Elizabeth Devitt Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving ...

The polar bear (scientific name Ursus maritimus) struggles to cross the ice on the sea. In the past, it would have already found its hunting ground, but with the recent melting of ice, there are ...

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 risk ...

Credit: Gary Banziger (NASA Langley) and Ralph Kahn (NASA GSFC/University of Colorado Boulder) NASA's most ambitious Arctic voyage to date has revealed surprisingly high concentrations of ice ...

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...

The rapid loss of sea ice due to climate change is "driving hungry bears to land and putting both ... with frozen seas melting into open water, shrinking hunting grounds. In the Nineties it ...

“Haley is such a special and inquisitive bear,” said Mike Murray, VP of life sciences for the Detroit Zoological Society. “We ...

a clue that may help explain why Arctic ice is melting even faster than predicted. "The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planet, so the question we're trying to ask here is ...