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Polar Bears

Warming Trends: A Possible Link Between Miscarriages and Heat, Trash-Eating Polar Bears and a More Hopeful Work of Speculative Climate Fiction

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A polar bear mom and cub wander near the quarry on the outskirts of the town of Churchill. Credit: Madison Stevens/Polar Bears International
A hair stylist tends to a customer at a salon on May 17, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Warming Trends: How Hairdressers Are Mobilizing to Counter Climate Change, Plus Polar Bears in Greenland and the ‘Sounds of the Ocean’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A polar bear walks on the frozen tundra on the edge of Hudson Bay waiting for the water body to to freeze over in November 2007 outside Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Credit: Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Climate Threats to Bears, Bugs and Bees, Plus a Giant Kite and an ER Surge

By Katelyn Weisbrod

USGS biologist Todd Atwood weighs a polar bear on the southern Beaufort Sea. Climate change has caused the ice to become too thin in recent years to safely allow for this kind of polar bear examinations. Photo Courtesy of Todd Atwood

Polar Bears Are Suffering from the Arctic’s Loss of Sea Ice. So Is Scientists’ Ability to Study Them

By David Hasemyer

A woolly mammoth family on March 5, 2019 in Billingshurst, England. Credit: Andrew Hasson/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Katharine Hayhoe Talks About Hope, Potty Training Cows, and Can Woolly Mammoths Really Fight Climate Change?

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A new study projects that all but possibly a few polar bear populations will face demographic declines by 2100 as the season with no sea ice elongates and extends polar bear fasts. Credit: Steven C. Amstrup/Polar Bears International

How Many Polar Bears Will Be Left in 2100? If Temperatures Keep Rising, Probably Not a Lot

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Polar bear cubs spend the first two months of their lives in their dens. A new study found that mothers are unlikely to evacuate their den with their cubs—even if their lives are threatened. Credit: Steven C. Amstrup/Polar Bears International

Polar Bear Moms Stick to Their Dens Even Faced With Life-Threatening Dangers Like Oil Exploration

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Meltdown: How We Got the Story

By Sabrina Shankman

A polar bear in Hudson Bay

Ice Loss Forecast: More Extinctions, Oil Drilling

By Katherine Bagley

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