F or bears of both the market and polar kind, a planet without an ice cap is a tragedy. The Arctic is warming four times ...

More than 37,000 citizen scientists have joined the Walrus From Space project, with the hopes of helping walruses ...

Hungry polar bears are turning to rubbish dumps to fill their stomachs as their icy habitat disappears. On Wednesday, a team of Canadian and US scientists warned that trash poses an emerging ...

Polar bears are one of the most majestic, yet fearsome animals on the planet. The largest living species of bear and the ...

From rising temperatures to changing migratory patterns for birds, climate change may be creating conditions hospitable for ...

Abnormal weather events and severe winter storms could be caused by a disrupted polar vortex. Find out here how the polar vortex affects the weather.

the stratospheric polar vortex and mid-latitude winter weather would improve our ability to anticipate these events and their severity. Mathew Barlow is a professor of climate science, UMass Lowell.

This winter, it seems as if temperatures have been fluctuating more significantly. Over the past year, it seems as if severe weather events have been occurring more frequently as well. Answers as ...