As the world's largest bear, and largest land carnivore, polar bears are impressive mammals and are adapted to living in the ...

New proposal suggests drastic plan to save endangered species. July 19, 2008 — -- If the most dire climate predictions come to pass, the Arctic ice cap will melt entirely, and polar bears could ...

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life except around the coasts. But this wasn't always the case. In 1833, naturalist James Eights found fossilized wood buried in the continent's ...

While researching a separate topic, Naomi Ochwat noticed that a glacier in Antarctica had shrunk by 50%. What she learned was ...

Ukrainian polar explorers showed "deserted and mystical" night-time landscapes in Antarctica. They say that this is a rare phenomenon when the sky above the Vernadsky station is not covered with ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star departed the Antarctic region last week after 65 days south of the Antarctic Circle as part of Operation Deep Freeze 2025. The annual event is led by the U.S.