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

Svalbard’s chubby bears upend catastrophe talk—echoing Trump’s swagger and Gates’s pivot to adaptation.

Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. Researchers took more than 1,000 body measurements ...

To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of ...

Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all ...

Microbes across Earth's coldest regions are becoming more active as glaciers, permafrost and sea ice thaw, accelerating ...

After decades monitoring polar bears in Norway's far north, researchers say the animals have proven incredibly adaptable, but ...

Seals favored by Svalbard bears are becoming easier to hunt as ice declines, a study found. But researchers say the situation ...

Polar bears can struggle to adapt to climate change. Bears on Svalbard may be surviving on land prey and seals — but scientists warn it may not last.

The finding offers a small window of hope for a polar bear population vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Shrinking sea ice has made life harder for polar bears in many parts of the Arctic, but the population in Svalbard seems to ...