Climate change in Earth's polar regions is emerging as an underrecognized driver of global health risks, with consequences reaching far beyond the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers argue. Subscribe to ...

Florida State University researchers have discovered how to accurately predict winter weather forecasts months in advance, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no secret that polar bears in the Arctic are suffering as a result of changing conditions due to climate change, but a new ...

These severe cold events occur when the polar jet stream – the familiar jet stream of winter that runs along the boundary between Arctic and more temperate air – dips deeply southward, bringing the ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...

The impacts of human-caused climate change are so overwhelming they’re actually messing with time, according to new research. Polar ice melt caused by global warming is changing the speed of Earth’s ...

A polar bear on view during Sven Sundgaard's trip to Churchill, Manitoba. CATHY WURZER: Hey, do you have a bucket list trip? For some folks, it's seeing the polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

Rapid changes in climate in the polar regions are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees of severity at all ecosystem levels. Even larger changes and more significant ...

Polar bears are intensely curious animals. That curiosity often brings them into contact with people and can put both species ...