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

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 ...

"The bear then attacked the male, causing serious but non-life-threatening injuries to his arm and legs," police said.

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 ...

Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions beneath the continent’s vast ice sheet, creating a slow but ...

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...

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 ...

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 ...