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

The National Geographic Endurance is a comfortable base for explorations in icy waters, whether in the Arctic or in the ...

Polar bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, but experts say that shrinking sea ice is pushing them to approach inhabited ...

A record crowd ran into frigid Lake Michigan for the Waukegan Polar Bear Plunge on New Year’s Day, despite temperatures of 14 ...

Dozens of motorcycle riders bundled up on Saturday to take part in the first Mid-Ohio Valley Polar Bear Ride, a cold-weather ...

For 30 years, Marylanders have been "freezin' for a reason" by raising money for Special Olympics Maryland through the Polar ...

A Washington city may have broken a Guinness World Record by gathering nearly 5,000 people to take a "polar bear dip" at the ...

Ursus maritimus is the scientific name for polar bears, named in 1774 by Constantine Phipps. Polar bears are marine mammals in the Ursidae family, adapted to Arctic sea ice. Polar bears don't truly ...

Thousands of people jumped into Barton Springs Pool for a time-honored tradition of the annual Polar Bear Plunge.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WLS) -- The 27th annual Waukegan Polar Bear Plunge took place in frigid weather Thursday morning: It's a New ...

Outside, the temperature hung around 40 degrees under overcast skies, but spirits among the participants were upbeat.

The snowy weather was perfect for not one, but two polar bear birthdays Tuesday at Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota. Inside Polar Bear Odyssey, Neil is turning 30, and Nan is celebrating her 31st.