The disruption could occur in February, bringing some of the coldest temperatures of the season at the end of winter.

Today, due to the rapidly melting ice sheets of the Arctic Ocean, Greenland and Antarctica, polar exploration can reveal the immediacy of the world's climate change crisis. Without a significant ...

Polar bears will be wiped out by the end of the century unless more is done to tackle climate change, a study predicts. Scientists say some populations have already reached their survival limits ...

Wind tunnel experiments conducted by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF show how snow crystals change in ...

Precise measurements of the ice sheet's changing shape are of critical importance for tracking and adapting to the effects of ...

We get cool winters and warm summers… well warmish! Other climate zones are very different to ours. A Polar climate is very, very cold and dry, but with lots of ice and snow, as it’s too cold ...

We get cool winters and warm summers … well warmish! Other climate zones are very different to ours. A Polar climate is very, very cold and dry, but with lots of ice and snow, as it’s too cold ...

The polar ice sheets are the key to climate tipping points—thresholds in Earth's systems that, when breached, lead to large and often irreversible environmental change. They have some of the ...

All this is crucial as climate change leads to shrinking ice coverage, which leaves polar bears’ preferred meal of seals further out of reach. Ice-free seasons have also extended, which means ...

However other researchers say the impacts of climate change on polar bears would differ, depending on location. "It is likely polar bears will disappear from areas where sea ice will be lost in ...