Ice-repelling properties of polar bear fur sebum offer sustainable solutions for preventing ice buildup on infrastructure.

As the planet heats up, the summer sea ice and all the superbly adapted life it supports—the bears, the seals, the walruses, the whales, the Arctic cod, the crustaceans, the ice algae—may well ...

The polar bear is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding landmasses. A boar (adult male ...

Polar bears are one of the most majestic, yet fearsome animals on the planet. The largest living species of bear and the largest land carnivore, the polar bear is closely related to the brown bear. So ...

Polar bears have a built-in defense against ice — greasy fur. A team of scientists has discovered that their fur is coated in ...

Don't walk alone at night. Many murals in Churchill depict Arctic wildlife, particularly polar bears [Victoria Gill/BBC] Churchill is known as the polar bear capital of the world. Every year ...

These new findings also reinforce Indigenous knowledge about the Arctic-dwelling bears, per the paper. Inuit people have taken advantage of the sebum’s properties, even affixing shoe-like ...

So they’re at particular risk from global warming, which is melting the Arctic sea ice they depend on. Polar bears generally live and hunt alone, though they can be quite social too. They mainly eat ...

The Weather Network has covered the significance of a warming Arctic, the effects climate ... what increased exploration could do to polar bear den sites. The video above discussed a 2020 study ...

As the Arctic warms, polar bears face a growing risk of contracting viruses, bacteria and parasites that they were less likely to encounter just 30 years ago, research has revealed. In a study ...

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 ...

As the freeze sets in in Autumn, hundreds of bears gather here, waiting. "We have freshwater rivers flowing into the area and cold water coming in from the Arctic," explains Alyssa McCall from ...