Participants dive into the 45° Tennessee River at Joe Wheeler State Park, testing their courage during the second annual ...

Hundreds of people went to Bradford Beach on Milwaukee's lakefront to take in the annual polar bear event held on New Year's Day ...

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

Researchers analyzed blood samples from polar bears located in northeastern and southeastern Greenland. The results showed ...

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

Brothers Doug, Tim and Chris Shanahan jump into the water together during the annual Polar Bear Plunge at Barton Springs Pool ...

Everyone has their own strategy for the Connellsville Polar Plunge on New Year’s Day. For Dale Kooser and Geoffrey Bittner, ...

An Ontario wildlife refuge held a "sweet 16" birthday party for one of its polar bears, complete with a car and an oversized ...

The Whatcom County community attempted to break the world record for largest polar bear dip on New Year’s Day 2026.

The frigid temperatures didn't bother hundreds of people who started their new year by splashing into the icy cold waters of the Monongahela River.

Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, DC, recently celebrated the birth of two ...

Two sloth bear cubs were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) on December ...