Volunteers were “Freezin’ for a Reason” in the cold water of Mission Bay at Make-A-Wish San Diego's inaugural Polar Plunge.

In order to understand the massive changes afoot in the warming polar regions, oceanographer Allison Fong is hunting for the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard’s only heavy icebreaker Polar Star (WAGB-10) is in the McMurdo Sound, as it nears the National Science ...

The 22nd annual Polar Plunge is scheduled starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday February 21, 2026, at the Kure Beach Pavilion.

The record-setting polar explorer talks about helping Will Smith film the new docuseries 'Pole to Pole,' rebuilding after ...

Researchers tracking wild polar bears in northern Canada have witnessed something exceedingly rare: a mother bear adopting a cub that was not biologically her own. The five-year-old mother bear and ...

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This study was funded by grants from the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S011188/1) and the European Research Council (SELECTHAPLOID - 101001341) The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in ...

The world’s polar bear population is projected to decline by two-thirds by 2050. A new study from the University of East Anglia suggests that polar bears are undergoing rapid genetic changes, and ...

Do you believe in Santa? If not, you might find yourself on a train heading toward the North Pole in order to help you believe, or this might just sound like the plot of "The Polar Express" to you.

Meet our story’s protagonist: a female polar bear. Displaced by shrinking sea ice in the Arctic, she was forced to wander south, deeper into the Canadian Northwest Territories. Here, our lady in white ...

A map of the polar vortex that is bringing frigid temperatures to parts of the U.S. (AccuWeather) The first of three rounds of cold Arctic air from a shifting polar vortex has sent temperatures ...