Well, well, well. How inconvenient. Exactly 20 years after climate change was catapulted to the top of the political agenda, ...

Between snowy winters and holiday songs, many animals come to mind during Christmas. There are polar bears wearing Santa hats and red-nosed reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh. Turtle doves and the ...

As summer wanes in the Northern Hemisphere, scientists are sounding the alarm over what could be one of the most extreme Arctic melt seasons in recorded history — a shift with potentially far-reaching ...

When it comes to Arctic apex predators, the polar bear is the first animal that typically comes to mind. It’s a top predator, feasting on seals and occasionally other sea mammals. Its hunting skills ...

The Arctic might soon become completely ice-free. And when all of the ice is gone, the world won't be the same. And while politics seems to keep failing to reach a consensus on how to act, the only ...

Brookfield Zoo, which has cared for generations of polar bears, hopes to offer guidelines for an area where mothers den at ...

It’s one of the most pressing questions facing climate scientists today: how vulnerable are the vast ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica to rising temperatures? An unfathomable amount of ice is ...

Jerry says he has heard that if we had no land masses on Earth there would be no polar ice caps. That’s not necessarily true, but ice caps do form more easily on land than on the ocean because snow ...

In subzero winds, hypothermia announces itself in small, easy-to-miss ways. Here’s what one Nat Geo Explorer does to combat it in some of the coldest places on Earth.