It’s really, really cold again – as the US shivers through at least the eighth blast of air from the Arctic this winter. Here’s why it keeps happening.

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

A team of researchers from the Met Office and the University of Leeds has pinpointed a new reason for winter storm clusters, ...

Today, due to the rapidly melting ice sheets of the Arctic Ocean, Greenland and Antarctica, polar exploration can reveal the immediacy of the world's climate change crisis. Without a significant ...

While climate models indicate a general warming trend due to increased greenhouse gases the chaotic nature of weather systems combined with limited historical data on the polar vortex contributes ...

How is climate change affecting polar regions? Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the ...

Standing at the top of a mountain in Antarctica can change the way we see the world. The more we look, we find that polar regions reveal how dramatically our planet can change and, at the same time, ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

Key studies and observations documenting climate change impacts to polar bears are summarized below. Polar bear populations are declining: The Polar Bear Specialist Group of the IUCN determined that 8 ...

The special occasion, hosted by conservation organization Polar Bear International (PBI), was created in part to raise awareness about the “sea ice loss from human-caused climate warming,” and ...

This year's Arctic sea ice peak is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, the US National Snow and Ice Data Center ...

The animal is a hybrid created by the mating of a grizzly bear and a polar bear — a pairing scientists found could be happening more often due to climate change. According to Live Science ...