Glaciers are essential for maintaining the planet’s climate balance. Scientists reveal disturbing trend in Earth's polar ...

It’s really, really cold again – as the US shivers through at least the eighth blast of air from the Arctic this winter. Here’s why it keeps happening.

The term “polar vortex” might conjure images of mythical icy storms swirling through the North Pole but in reality it’s a crucial component of our ... Read more The post What Causes the “Polar Vortex” ...

Documents from the 1950s and 1960s show how the Pentagon poured support into climate and cold-region research to boost the ...

Today, due to the rapidly melting ice sheets of the Arctic Ocean, Greenland and Antarctica, polar exploration can reveal the immediacy of the world's climate change crisis. Without a significant ...

The polar vortex’s icy grip on much of America has Arctic Greenland seeming like a toasty vacation spot by comparison.

How is climate change affecting polar regions? Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the ...

Standing at the top of a mountain in Antarctica can change the way we see the world. The more we look, we find that polar regions reveal how dramatically our planet can change and, at the same time, ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

Key studies and observations documenting climate change impacts to polar bears are summarized below. Polar bear populations are declining: The Polar Bear Specialist Group of the IUCN determined that 8 ...

The animal is a hybrid created by the mating of a grizzly bear and a polar bear — a pairing scientists found could be happening more often due to climate change. According to Live Science ...

Whether or not it’s connected to climate change, the pattern is still rearing its head this winter and it’s working in tandem with the polar vortex. The jet stream and frigid air just could ...