"A polar bear can smell a human from miles away." Video captures chilling moment polar bear approaches massive rig: 'They are ...

He explained that the warming is melting the sea ice that bears depend on. "It's important, because it's a complete transformation of the ecosystem," Lehner said. The Western Hudson Bay polar ...

It then states estimates in 2005 were 20,000 to 25,000 and then grew to between 22,000 and 31,000 in 2015. However, the claim that polar bear numbers have increased since the 1950s rests on thin ice, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling ...

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 ...

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 ...