Greenland’s remote eastern fjords are a place of elemental beauty, where glaciers carve through the land, musk oxen roam ...

It's been 30 years since Queen last put out a studio album, but the cup that is their very expensive catalog hasn't runneth empty just yet. Next year they'll be reissuing their 1974 sophomore album ...

Researchers were surprised when they spotted an additional cub with this mother polar bear. Dave Sandford / Discover Churchill When female polar bear X33991 first emerged from her maternal den in ...

The iconic Tom Hanks has been a part of many excellent movies across a storied, nearly 50-year career. In that time, the California-born actor has won two Academy Awards, both for Best Actor and, ...

"It's just nice to know that the bears are looking out for each other," said Evan Richardson, one of the researchers A mother polar bear in Northern Canada appears to have "adopted" a cub that is not ...

Researchers tracking wild polar bears in northern Canada have witnessed something exceedingly rare: a mother bear adopting a cub that was not biologically her own. The five-year-old mother bear and ...

High up in the Arctic Circle, Olivier Chastel begins his working day by scanning the horizon for polar bears, rifle at the ready. “In 25 years I’ve never had to use it, but you can’t be too careful,” ...

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 ...

A new study from the University of East Anglia suggests that polar bears are undergoing rapid genetic changes, and scientists believe it's due to the impacts of climate change. “It’s kind of the first ...

A disruptive polar vortex is set to usher in three successive waves of Arctic air across the central and eastern United States through mid-December, bringing dangerously low temperatures and the ...

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 ...

A disrupted polar vortex is expected to bring cold weather to many parts of the U.S., and potentially snow to some regions. A rare atmospheric event known as sudden stratospheric warming is being ...