By early May, the high sun can make calm Arctic days mild or even hot. We update expeditions on Ellesmere Island, the Northwest Passage, and Greenland.

An image of a Polar Bear resting on an ice cap in the Arctic Ocean has won the Wildlife Photograph of the Year People’s Choice Awards. The snoozing Polar Bear was snapped by an amateur UK ...

Borge Ousland and Vincent Colliard are a month into their 1,100km bid to complete the first unsupported north-to-south ski crossing of Ellesmere Island.

Polar bear photos were once seen as a compelling tool to inspire donations from sympathetic audiences (Credit: Getty Images) For decades distressed polar bears on distant ice caps were an emblem ...

Polar bears Christmas is a winter holiday in northern countries, which is why cold weather animals like polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are often associated with the festive season.

Polar bears have a hidden-in-a-plain-sight superpower that anyone who has watched a wildlife documentary could have spotted: ice doesn’t stick to their fur. This has long been known to ...

Bodil initially thought that polar bear fur might have structural properties that prevent ice from forming. She and her colleagues used high-powered microscopes to zoom in on the fur, but "we ...

Once the ice was in place, the team used a force gauge on a track to push it off. By measuring the maximum force needed to remove the ice and dividing this by the area of the sample, they obtained ice ...

Recently, they have made steady daily progress of 20km or more, despite some areas of broken ice. The Spaniards spotted polar bear prints on April 28, and later watched a bear pass near their camp ...