Edinburgh’s Christmas has just announced the (literal) coolest new bar in town - the city’s first Polar Ice Bar. Visitors are invited to take some time to chill this festive period ...

Unique Assembly, producers of Edinburgh’s Christmas, said: “We are thrilled to present the Polar Ice Bar, a brand-new attraction for Edinburgh’s Christmas and the city that is guaranteed to ...

Melanie de Lange receives funding from Wellcome. A lot of people dread the clocks going back an hour in winter – but reassure themselves that at least they’ll get an extra hour’s sleep.

Here’s how it works. Polar bears are developing horrific wounds on their paws due to changing ice conditions in the Arctic, a new study reports. In the most severe cases, researchers describe ...

Edinburgh Christmas has announced a brand new Polar Ice Bar is to open for the festive period. Kept at a freezing -8°C, all walls, bars, tables and decor at the ice bar on George Street are made from ...

This group of polar bears, like others, is spending more time on land each summer, because Arctic sea ice is melting earlier in the spring and forming later come fall. Without access to their ...

Like Rode and her colleagues, the polar bears off the coast of Alaska also avoided the thinning sea ice and spent more time on land. But the extra time on the land, the team found, increased their ...

The Chukchi Sea polar bear population was a perfect fit. These bears, native to the waters between Alaska and Russia, have experienced dramatic losses of sea ice habitat, leading many to spend ...

Mighty polar bears, the iconic symbols of Arctic snow and ice landscapes, are developing a peculiar problem. It’s not the lack of food or the shrinking ice caps — these are well-known, and devastating ...

In a study that has provided clues about how polar bear disease could be linked to ice loss, scientists examined blood samples from bears in the Chukchi Sea - between Alaska and Russia.

In the Arctic, where warming is occurring at nearly four times the global rate and polar bears are experiencing a rapid loss of their sea ice habitat, infectious diseases present a growing concern ...