A study published in the scientific journal PLOS One compared blood samples of polar bears in the Chukchi Sea from 1987 to ...

Given that polar regions are covered in snow and ice, they reflect almost all the solar radiation that reaches them. But climate change is reducing the amount of ice at the poles, throwing Earth's ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far ...

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Churchill is a remote Canadian town that not only lives with polar bears next door, but loves them. That's because the ...

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 ...

Some polar bears face starvation as the Arctic sea ice melts because they are unable to adapt their diets to living on land, scientists have found. The iconic Arctic species normally feed on ...

Polar bears will be wiped out by the end of the century unless more is done to tackle climate change, a study predicts. Scientists say some populations have already reached their survival limits ...

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 ...