A new study has shed light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to ...

If you ask children or college students to draw pictures to illustrate climate change, chances are that polar bears will make ...

A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to travel across the Arctic Ocean. The findings raise fresh ...

“In 2002, the widespread knowledge, or acceptance, of climate change wasn’t as broad as it is now ... to warming temperatures ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation ...

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 ...

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 ...

PBI monitors polar bears across the Arctic partly to determine the impacts of climate change on the behavior and physical condition of the animals as well as population trends. One program has ...

Mikkelsen, the first Norwegian bound for space, has flown over the poles before, but at a much lower altitude. She was part of the 2019 record-breaking mission that circumnavigated the world via the ...

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 ...