(Phys.org)—Aside from rising sea levels, many climate change models predict that in the future, the planet's temperature and weather will become increasingly erratic with wild, unpredictable storms and ...

Biology - Evolution

Feb 01, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Russia on Thursday decreed a national park in its remote Far Eastern Chukotka region, paving the way for a joint US-Russian nature reserve spanning the Bering Strait, an idea first proposed by the last Soviet ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 17, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

A team of American and Chinese conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and University of Montana recently counted nearly 1,000 wild yaks from a remote area of the Tibetan-Qinghai Plateau. ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 16, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

A mother's willingness to sacrifice her own health and safety for the sake of her children is a common narrative across cultures – and by no means unique to humans alone. Female polar bears starve, dolphin ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 08, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 1 |

All over the planet, people are fighting to save animals and plants from extinction – even though many species have no utilitarian value for us. In a new book, University of Copenhagen theologian Jakob Wolf takes up this ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 25, 2012 3.1 / 5 (7) 6

(AP)—An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents.

Other Sciences - Other

Sep 29, 2012 4.5 / 5 (11) 13

(Phys.org)—The blanket of sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean melted to its lowest extent ever recorded since satellites began measuring it in 1979, according to the University of Colorado Boulder's National ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 27, 2012 3.9 / 5 (24) 433 |

Zoos bring together different animal species that would never encounter each other in the wild. On occasion, this can have unforeseen consequences. When in 2010 at the Wuppertal Zoo one polar bear died and ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 16, 2012 not rated yet 0

A whole-genome analysis suggests that polar bear numbers waxed and waned with climate change, and that the animals may have interbred with brown bears since becoming a distinct species millions of years ago.

Biology - Evolution

Jul 23, 2012 4.4 / 5 (8) 8 |

Scientists have developed a new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and discovered they are not as heavy as previously thought.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jun 05, 2012 5 / 5 (18) 17 |

(Phys.org) -- A new genetic analysis carried out by and international team of scientists has revealed that polar bears and brown bears may have diverged around 600,000 years ago, which is much earlier than ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 20, 2012 3.3 / 5 (4) 69 |

Research scientists working for the U.S. Geological Survey report that some Alaska polar bears are losing their fur.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 10, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

It's never been easy to be a polar bear. They may have to go months without eating. Their preferred food, seal, requires enormous luck and patience to catch. Add to that the melting of Arctic sea ice due to climate change, ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 29, 2012 not rated yet 0

Past waves of extinctions which removed some of the world's largest animals were caused by both people and climate change, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. Their findings were reported today, 05 ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 05, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(AP) -- Advocacy groups have set up a webcam to let viewers worldwide follow the development of a three-month-old polar bear cub in a Danish wildlife park.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 27, 2012 not rated yet 0