Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The world’s polar bear population is projected to decline by two-thirds by 2050. A new study from the University of East Anglia suggests that polar bears are undergoing rapid genetic changes, and ...

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 ...

This study was funded by grants from the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S011188/1) and the European Research Council (SELECTHAPLOID - 101001341) The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in ...

Meet our story’s protagonist: a female polar bear. Displaced by shrinking sea ice in the Arctic, she was forced to wander south, deeper into the Canadian Northwest Territories. Here, our lady in white ...

The wall that keeps cold air contained in the Arctic is called the polar vortex. There's been a "displacement" in the polar vortex, which allows Arctic air to escape to the south. An "arctic frontal ...

Multiple states registered subzero temps on Friday, Dec. 5. The polar vortex has broken, and severe temperatures are dominating even in southern sates like Texas, which saw record breaking lows in the ...

Grab your coats, it's getting chilly. A polar vortex broke, and severe temperatures are set to dominate most of the United States, including the Midwest, in the coming days. The polar vortex will ...

A Polar vortex has covered the Philadelphia region under a canopy of frigid temperatures, but many people may not realize what a Polar vortex actually is, and the dangers — like frostbite — such ...

Just a few days into December, an arctic air mass has swept into the United States, bringing subzero morning lows and daytime highs stuck in the teens for 30 million Americans in the Northern Plains, ...

Frigid temperatures are expected to impact much of the central and eastern United States in the coming weeks, including New York's Great Lakes region. The first of three polar vortex systems is ...

The polar vortex is so back, and in some parts of the country, the weather system will bring with it up to a foot of snow. If “polar vortex” is giving you déjà vu, that’s because we’ve heard it before ...