An international team of scientists has discovered the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur—something that allows one of the ...

Polar bears have a built-in defense against ice — greasy fur. A team of scientists has discovered that their fur is coated in ...

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease ...

“Inuit hunting stools are sometimes shod with polar bear fur on the feet to avoid noise when moving on the ice, while people ...

After collecting hair from six polar bears in the wild, scientists homed in on the hair 'sebum' (or grease) as the ...

The road south from Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, runs out at the tip of a blizzard-scoured peninsula stretching into the ...

In a new Statistics Canada survey, 49 per cent of First Nations people living off-reserve, 44 per cent of Métis and 44 per ...

Greenland is one of the few places on Earth where climate change is sometimes referred to as an opportunity by making it less inhabitable for those who live there and more accessible to those who ...

Greenland is one of the few places on Earth where climate change is sometimes referred to as an opportunity by making it less ...

A new review on zoonotic infections—diseases transmitted by animals—in the Canadian Arctic provides timely guidance to ...

“My dad is 86 years old, and I asked him during Christmas. I asked if he had ever seen a spell like this, a long period of ...