Till a few years ago, people did not pay much heed to the issue of Climate Change, but some recent occurrences like the Polar Bear shooting in Iceland and flooding in Sahara Desert have raised an ...

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Around 3% of the water on Earth is fresh water; much of this is ice, but the rest forms a wide variety of biodiverse freshwater habitats, including rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, streams and other ...

Wildflower habitats are as varied as they are beautiful; from European meadows populated with delicate species such as melancholy thistle and wood cranesbill, to the astonishingly biodiverse Cape ...

Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to wet snow that gets stuck to the pads and freezes into blocks. When you ...

WATSONVILLE, Calif. (KION-TV) -- The City of Watsonville unanimously approved an affordable housing project proposed by Habitat for Humanity Tuesday evening. The development will include 13 affordable ...

polar bears are classified as a threatened species; scientists say the biggest threat to their future is the continuing loss of sea ice habitat, which they depend on as a platform from which to ...

Pathogens are more common in polar bears living in the Chukchi Sea now than they were three decades ago, a new study suggests—but it’s not yet clear what that means for the mammals’ health ...

Living off one of the richest oceans in the Arctic, the polar bears by the Chukchi Sea appear to be thriving. Females are in good health and give birth to healthy cubs. Overall, this Alaskan ...

Polar bears face mounting challenges in a changing, warming world, mostly related to their waning wintery wonderland habitats. But they may be increasingly infected with germs and parasites ...

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 ...