Don't put away that winter jacket just yet. The polar vortex is expected to be impacted by a sudden warmup of the stratosphere, which will bring freezing temperatures to the Northeast this weekend and ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Polar bears became the poster child for the peril of climate change for obvious ...

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - The Myrtle Beach Polar Plunge is making changes due to the weather. All live events for the Myrtle Beach Polar Plunge at the Sands Ocean Club Resort have been canceled for ...

In a warming world, the polar bear has become the unofficial mascot of ecological collapse. We’ve all seen the photos of these majestic predators reduced to skin and bone, clinging to ever-shrinking ...

Three polar bear cubs gather around their tranquilized mother. She had a litter of three cubs (an unusual brood size) and the smallest cub only weighed 11 pounds (five kilograms). Jon Aars / Norwegian ...

Rising temperatures and rapidly melting sea ice threaten polar bears across the Arctic. But the bears living 800 miles north of the Arctic Circle have stayed surprisingly fat, researchers report ...

Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. These giant bears hunt, mate and spend their days hanging out on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing as the climate ...

Polar bears have been getting fatter even as sea ice disappears in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, the fastest-warming place on Earth – but scientists don’t expect the good times to last. The northern ...

The finding offers a small window of hope for a polar bear population vulnerable to the effects of climate change. A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walks on pack ice in Svalbard, Norway. The effects ...

Seals favored by Svalbard bears are becoming easier to hunt as ice declines, a study found. But researchers say the situation may be temporary. By Eric Niiler The population of polar bears in Norway’s ...

PARK CITY, Utah — In the snowy subarctic wilds of northern Manitoba, the Inuit have a word for polar bears who’ve lost their fear of being around humans: avinnaarjuk, or “nuisance bear.” That’s a ...