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.

There’s hope that the deep freeze enveloping southeast Michigan –—and much of the country — will begin to thaw next week, but ...

The polar vortex’s icy grip on much of America has Arctic Greenland seeming like a toasty vacation spot by comparison.

A strong, stable vortex is like a skater spinning with their arms tucked closely in, holding in an area of cold air over the ...

A Syrian brown bear was seen licking ice while half-asleep on a frozen pond in upstate New York, footage released in ...

This experiment showed that the ice adhesion of unwashed polar bear fur is exceptionally low. While the often-accepted ...

After a winter storm brings snow, ice to several states, Mississippi will see Arctic air from the polar vortex for a few days ...

As Erling Kagge relates in his thrilling book, The North Pole, the world’s northernmost point has been a lifelong and nearly ...

A study in the journal Science Advances reveals how polar bears manage to get wet in the cold without their fur freezing.

This winter, with record snow in New Orleans and drought and destructive wildfires in Southern California, has not been ...