A dramatic collapse in Antarctica’s summer sea ice has stunned scientists, with coverage plunging to 30% below the historical ...

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

Mikkelsen, the first Norwegian bound for space, has flown over the poles before, but at a much lower altitude. She was part ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trevor Layman is a student in the Master of Advanced Studies in Climate Science and Policy (MAS CSP) program at Scripps ...

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 ...

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 ...

A polar vortex collapse is expected over the next two weeks, causing extreme winter weather and travel disruption across North America. The weather phenomenon is expected to develop in mid-March, ...

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 ...

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 ...