After pinpointing the hair grease as the key component for keeping ice off of polar bear fur, they performed a detailed chemical analysis of the sebum. They first identified the key components ...

The majestic polar bear leaps across the water, landing on an ice sheet with a semi-belly flop. That’s one of the sights tourist Emma Postolec caught during an Arctic cruise on Sept. 27. Her ...

Svalbard has warmed between 5.4 and 9 degrees Fahrenheit in the past half century, thinning out the ice that is crucial to polar bear survival, according to a report commissioned by the Norwegian ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

This experiment showed that the ice adhesion of unwashed polar bear fur is exceptionally low. While the often-accepted threshold for “icephobicity” is around 100 kPa, the unwashed fur measured as ...

Back to homepage / Live news Polar bear hell: An ice pack that keeps receding. Churchill (Canada) (AFP) – Sprawled on rocky ground far from sea ice, a lone Canadian polar bear sits under a ...