After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen home to hunt seals and bulk up. But their migration ritual is changing.

F or bears of both the market and polar kind, a planet without an ice cap is a tragedy. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the world at large, causing ice to shrink by an area the size of ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations.

From reproductive rights to climate change ... Polar and Marine Research, explained via email. He believes that they’re “probably the most likely to be effective.” “Whole-planet interventions like ...

The polar dance that caused snow to fall across the South in January has been studied for decades, but scientists still hope ...

Polar bears are struggling to survive as sea ice dwindles. Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay ...

The Power of Ice Cores Ice cores are like time capsules that hold the secrets of Earth's past climate. Scientists drill deep ...

Social media posts sharing a graphic comparing sea ice levels in the Antarctic on the same date 45 years apart misrepresent the data to suggest climate change is a hoax. The graphic, opens new tab ...

exacerbating the effects of climate change. This is known as the ice-albedo feedback. Surface temperatures in the Arctic Ocean are warming more rapidly than anywhere else on the planet. The Arctic ice ...