Churchill is a remote Canadian town that not only lives with polar bears next door, but loves them. That's because the ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

Study reveals dramatic increases since the late 1980s, signaling potential future stress for bears already coping with a ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far ...

These amazing images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show the Arctic animals at their fierce but adorable best ...

Conservation and Attractions (DBCA), the lost animal was malnourished, which is to be expected after traveling thousands of miles from its regular home in Antarctica. Ocean Beach is nearly 2,500 ...

It's not clear how the juvenile male ended up so far north, but experts suggest he was motivated by his appetite ...

The animal was far from its icy home, with emperor penguins endemic to Antarctica. They are not normally found in Australia. The species is threatened by rising sea temperatures, with the World ...

Stories have surfaced of animals such as polar bears fighting off new diseases, and sometimes losing that fight.

In an interview with GlacierHub, Wagner said, "for some polar tipping points like Arctic sea ice and the WAIS, glacial geoengineering seems to be the only way for us to more or less guarantee that ...