According to a recent study published in Science Advances, a greasy hair day keeps the ice away — for polar bears, that is. After examining polar bear fur, an international research team identified ...

East Carolina University has brought back its annual Polar Bear Plunge for another year.

according to Earth Observatory. Dutch explorers first discovered Bear Island in the late 16th century and named it after a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) that was seen swimming nearby. However ...

Today, the island harbours the greatest concentration of polar bears on the planet. an estimated thousand or more bears swim to its shores Every summer, an estimated thousand or more bears swim to ...

The ice is melting because of global warming. When humans burn fossil fuels like oil and coal, a bunch of greenhouse gases go ...