Climate change news: Melting ice could create chaos in US weather and quickly overwhelm oceans, studies warn In the southern Beaufort Sea, where he conducts his research, Atwood said bears are ...

Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar ...

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 are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

Frostpaw the polar bear with the melting ice bear. Artist Mark Coreth and his team from the Ice Bear Project carved this beautiful polar bear out of ice on December 5, 2009, in Copenhagen’s Nytorv ...

Scientists have long hypothesized what would happen to polar bear populations in the Arctic as sea ice continues to melt at ...

While science has established that there is a strong connection between melting sea ice and polar bears dying off, there is no way to know for certain why this bear was on the verge of death.

He has been studying polar bears for the past 12 years and says melting sea ice makes it harder for bears to hunt seals. "That tends to be the trigger for bears to either stay with the sea ice as ...

As the melting of glaciers and poles keeps expanding ... government to share the community's findings and projections on ice melting and offer recommendations for better protection of glacial ...