Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

He explained that the warming is melting the sea ice that bears depend on. "It's important, because it's a complete transformation of the ecosystem," Lehner said. The Western Hudson Bay polar ...

The polar bear (scientific name Ursus maritimus) struggles to cross the ice on the sea. In the past, it would have already found its hunting ground, but with the recent melting of ice, there are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Gary Banziger (NASA Langley) and Ralph Kahn (NASA GSFC/University of Colorado Boulder) NASA's most ambitious Arctic voyage to date has revealed surprisingly high concentrations of ice ...

Climate change is causing Arctic sea ice to melt earlier and freeze later, so polar bears are spending more time on land. In Alaska and Russia, observers have seen polar bears stalking and killing ...

The rapid loss of sea ice due to climate change is "driving hungry bears to land and putting both ... with frozen seas melting into open water, shrinking hunting grounds. In the Nineties it ...

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 ...