Excitement filled the halls of Sandel Elementary as Cocky’s Reading Express rolled in with a mission: to give away 20,000 ...

White fur, blubbery skin, sharp claws. Polar bears seem perfectly adapted to their frigid habitat up north. Now, researchers have discovered the bears have another unexpected Arctic adaptation ...

It’s really, really cold again — as the US shivers through at least the eighth blast of air from the Arctic this winter. Winter, which is warming faster than any other season for much of the ...

Tyler Aldin, a volunteer with Free Spirit Siberian Rescue, rides a rig pulled by huskies Saturday during the Chicago Park District’s Polar Adventure ... the breadth of activities and the beauty ...

Polar bears have a hidden-in-a-plain-sight superpower that anyone who has watched a wildlife documentary could have spotted: ice doesn’t stick to their fur. This has long been known to ...

he term “polar vortex” usually refers to the gigantic circular upper air weather pattern in the Arctic region, enveloping the North Pole The term “polar vortex” usually refers to the ...

Plungers ran into the cold Chesapeake Bay on Saturday, Feb. 1, marking the 29th annual Special Olympics Maryland Polar Bear Plunge. The fundraising event, in which individuals pledge $100 or more ...

Polar bear fur possesses anti-icing properties due to its greasy sebum, composed of cholesterol, diacylglycerols, and fatty acids, which prevents ice from adhering.

Polar bears are struggling to survive as sea ice dwindles. Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay ...

This winter, with record snow in New Orleans and drought and destructive wildfires in Southern California, has not been ...

Last week’s intrusion of polar air followed events like one that overwhelmed Texas’s power grid in 2021 and another that set record lows across the hardy Midwest in 2014. It remains to be seen ...