Polar bears are one of the largest mammals on land; only the African elephant can tower over the polar bear in this corner of ...

Ignored for most of its existence, the huge ice-bound island has been thrust into a geopolitical maelstrom. It’s trying to ...

The bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park are enormous by any standard, but 747 trumps them all, earning the title of Fat ...

The New York Mets signed Pete Alonso to a two-year contract with an opt-out after year one, and has recently shed more light ...

Winter fun from carriage rides and contests to live music and a polar plunge are on tap in downtown New Baltimore this ...

The world’s most northernmost town Longyearbyen is part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Every winter, its 2000-strong population experiences the Polar Night, when everything is ...

New York Golf Club has only won a pair of holes through two matches and sits in the basement of the SoFi Cup Standings. A ...

After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen home to hunt seals and bulk up. But their migration ritual is changing.

A study in the journal Science Advances reveals how polar bears manage to get wet in the cold without their fur freezing.

This experiment showed that the ice adhesion of unwashed polar bear fur is exceptionally low. While the often-accepted ...

The polar vortex’s icy grip on much of America has Arctic Greenland seeming like a toasty vacation spot by comparison.

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point ...