Norway plans to build a new undersea data connection with the Arctic archipelagos of Svalbard and Jan Mayen, partly to ...

Nora moved to the Rose City permanently in 2021. Her story was chronicled in “The Loneliest Polar Bear,” a five-part series ...

developed and issued two guiding documents to serve as roadmaps for this effort: the 2022 National Strategy for the Arctic ...

A polar bear cub was captured playfully snuggling its mom in Canada, heartwarming video shows. It shows the snow white cub ...

Cecilia Blomdahl tells PEOPLE exclusively about her life in Svalbard and what it's like living in the dark 24-7 during Polar ...

New research finds that grease that coats polar bear fur contains a specialized mixture of chemicals that make it resistant ...

a researcher at the University of Bergen in Norway who co-wrote the study published in the journal Science Advances. “That is certainly the inspiration here.” A physicist, Holst normally doesn’t think ...

Discover the amazing properties of polar bear fur that repel ice and prevent ice buildup. Learn how their specialized hair ...

East Carolina University students who decided to take the school’s annual Polar Bear Plunge on Thursday were undeterred by the 50-degree pool at the Eakin Recreation Center, even amid one of the ...

Polar bears don’t have to worry about skipping a wash day. The sebum, or natural oil, on the mammals’ fur helps them survive ...

Researchers from the University of Toronto have established a direct link between the population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay and shrinking sea ice caused by climate change. The ...

Researchers tested the resistance of animal fur to ice using samples of polar bear fur from Svalbard in Norway and compared them with human hair. They washed half the fur samples and hair to clean ...