The coldest country in the world offers a remote destination with rewarding experiences of northern lights viewing, polar ...

You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it ...

In modern times, the biggest bear on record was a polar bear taken in 1960. It weighed over 2,200 pounds and stood nearly 12 feet on its hind legs. From our Expert ...

Polar bear fur contains a cocktail of greasy compounds that make it exceptionally resistant to freezing, ... They found high levels of certain compounds that are especially resistant to freezing, ...

Susannah Woodruff can’t wait to stop pulling teeth out of polar bears. Dr. Woodruff, a wildlife biologist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, keeps tabs on Alaska’s population of the bears.

“During polar bear season, you watch the Hudson Bay freeze,” long-time Churchill visitor Kt Miller told Mongabay. “The land transforms into this whitish, bluish, almost pastel, color palette.” ...

The restaurant’s business challenge in Season 4 — balancing comfort food and haute cuisine — is also a metaphor for the ...

A rare polar bear attack in Wales, Alaska, highlights how melting ice is pushing the Arctic carnivores out of their habitat. ... raise cubs and hunt seals to sustain their high-fat diet.

Bodil initially thought that polar bear fur might have structural properties that prevent ice from forming. She and her colleagues used high-powered microscopes to zoom in on the fur, but "we ...

Blackhawk High School raises thousands for Special Olympics 02:13. ... It didn't take a long time to break the ice before the Polar Bear Plunge in the school's parking lot. "That was fun," Vitali ...

The last fatal polar bear attack to occur in Alaska was in December 1990. Similar to Tuesday's, the 1990 attack was unprovoked. York said that in 1990, it had been a thin and hungry bear.

Why polar bear fur doesn't freeze A study in the journal Science Advances reveals how polar bears manage to get wet in the cold ... So her team used a high-powered microscope and zoomed in on ...