I was just four years old when my family moved to Baffin Island, Canada, where we lived in a remote village among the Indigenous Peoples known as the Inuit. I spent most of my time outside, roaming ...

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures more than two-thirds of polar bears are expected to be ...

Climate change in Earth’s polar regions is emerging as an under-recognised driver of global health risks, with consequences reaching far beyond the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers argue. A study by ...

There's a confounding dilemma for many folks trying to make sense of winter weather in the context of climate change.

Scientists have taken an unprecedented look at marine fish species living in the world's oceans by studying traces of genetic material in seawater. One of the most surprising results was discovering ...

Deep in the ice-covered peaks of Norway lies the sleepy Arctic village of Svalbard. With fewer than 3,000 residents, its inhabitants are primarily wildlife. Arctic foxes scurry from their burrows, ...