The WWF Arctic Programme has launched a concerted push in 2009 for big conservation wins for polar bears, set firmly in the context of the battle against global warming. The first part of this push ...

WWF polar bear experts are spending the next couple of weeks in the “polar bear capital of the world”, the town of Churchill, on the shores of Hudson Bay in Canada. WWF polar bear experts are spending ...

Although it was only briefly seen during the live webcast of its launch, the Fram2 mission's zero-gravity indicator was instantly recognizable. The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit around Earth ...

Some of the world's least inhabited islands and territories have been hit by U.S. President Donald Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs on all foreign trading partners — and some appear to have more penguins ...

Darwin, Wallace and the other 19th century naturalists who traveled widely were fascinated by the distribution of animals and plants in their habitats around the world. Why do the Galapagos Islands of ...