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Is a white Christmas on the way? ‘Polar ice bomb’ looms with temperatures set to plummet as low as minus 7C on the big day Met Office predicts that between December 16 and 25 there will be mixture of showers and bright spells Blustery showers potentially falling as snow could mean wintery conditions are confined … Read more
Very chilled! Smiling polar bear lazily floats belly-up in a pool of water as it relaxes at German zoo Polar bear is seen floating belly-up in his pool as he relaxes in his zoo enclosure The fun photographs were taken by wildlife photographer Antje Wenner-Braun The bear is one year old and lives with its mother … Read more
Scientists have found a cluster of three salty liquid water lakes on Mars, each about six miles across, below the planet’s south polar ice cap. An international team examined radar data from MARSIS, a scientific instrument on board the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft. The technique uses bursts of radio waves to image buried … Read more
Heartbreaking moment a hungry polar bear chews on some plastic in Sweden as two others play tug-of-war with a bin liner The photographs highlight growing severity of plastic pollution as the cub swallowed chunks whilst eating A pair of two-year-old sibling polar bear cubs were playing with a plastic bag they had found in the … Read more
Explorers have spotted polar bear footprints on broken pieces of floating ice in the Arctic. Greenpeace’s vessel Arctic Sunrise has been travelling near Greenland where huge chunks of its ice caps have broken off. They spotted the prints on the small sections of ice during their journey as they investigate the effects of climate change … Read more
Pictured: Dutch man, 38, who was dragged from his tent by a polar bear and mauled to death on Norwegian island Johan Jacobus Kootte was killed in a campsite near Longyearbyen on Friday This is the sixth fatal polar bear attack in almost 50 years in Norway’s Svalbard The bear was later found dead in a … Read more
Britons have been told to dust off their coats for the first time since winter as temperatures are set to plummet as low as 10C in parts of the UK – 5C below the seasonal average. A 500-mile wide ‘polar plunge’ has swept in for the August bank holiday making it feel colder, but also … Read more
Plummeting temperatures could make the bank holiday weekend one of the coldest on record, coming just days after the UK experienced record-breaking heat. Huge downpours and 80mph winds from Storm Francis battered the UK earlier this week, with cold northerly winds gripping the country over the next few days. But party goers were out in force … Read more
Polar bear mauls a man to death at Norwegian camp site The man was killed over night in a caping area near Longyearbyen in Norway This is the sixth fatal polar bear attack in almost 50 years in Norway’s Svalbard The bear was later found dead in a parking lot after people fired shots at it By … Read more
Britain’s oldest polar bear ‘Victor’ dies aged 22 at Yorkshire Wildlife Park Oldest polar bear in Britain dies aged 22 after suddenly falling ill in wildlife park He had terminal kidney failure and after he suddenly fell ill vets put him to sleep Victor was rehomed in Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster in 2014 By … Read more