Plungers ran into the cold Chesapeake Bay on Saturday, Feb. 1, marking the 29th annual Special Olympics Maryland Polar Bear Plunge. The fundraising event, in which individuals pledge $100 or more ...

Polar bears have a built-in defense against ice — greasy fur. A team of scientists has discovered that their fur is coated in ...

The group compared ice resistance ... They then performed a chemical analysis of the polar bear sebum and identified cholesterol, diacylglycerols and fatty acids as its primary components.

A state-of-the-art catamaran reveals a stretch of Tasmania’s rugged southern coastline that few visitors get to see.

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Some directors have all the optimism, and Richard Linklater falls into this category. His film career began with chronicles ...

Antarctica, once off limits to all but research-station scientists, is becoming an increasingly popular cruise destination. According to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators ...

For its current initiative, Vital Impacts is selling 100 breathtaking prints from notable photographers to support indigenous communities through COICA (Convening Group of Indigenous Peoples in ...

For the first time, an international group of ... Oct. 22, 2024 — Polar bears in some parts of the ... provides the clearest projection that Antarctica's ice sheet will retreat rapidly after ...

A fat polar bear is a bear more likely to thrive in its extreme Arctic environment ... in the western Hudson’s Bay region, a group of scientists from the University of Toronto, ECCC, and Polar Bears ...

Free Travel. From Kerlingarfjöll, Iceland to Ushuaia, Argentina, these are 11 remote places worth traveling for around the world.