Climate change in Earth's polar regions is emerging as an underrecognized driver of global health risks, with consequences reaching far beyond the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers argue. Subscribe to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no secret that polar bears in the Arctic are suffering as a result of changing conditions due to climate change, but a new ...

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 ...

One group in Hudson Bay might have roughly a decade left because sea ice is becoming too thin to support them as they hunt, according to new research. By Austyn Gaffney Polar bears in the southern ...

Polar bears in some parts of the high Arctic are developing ice buildup and related injuries to their feet. The changes appear to be an unexpected consequence of climate change, related to 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 ...

Climate change is pushing two iconic Antarctic species — the emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal — toward the brink of extinction, a new assessment finds. The new listings, published Wednesday ...

Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to wet snow that gets stuck to the pads and freezes into blocks. Polar bears ...