How do polar bears keep ice off their fur? Grease.
Polar bears need all the help they can get to survive their frosty Arctic environment. One of their biggest survival secrets ...
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How polar bears stop ice from freezing on their fur
Indigenous peoples of the Arctic traditionally use polar bear fur for its ice-resistant properties, but the science behind ...
Greasy hair gives polar bears fur with anti-icing properties
An international team of scientists has discovered the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur—something that allows one of the ...
Polar Bears’ Slick Secret: How Greasy Fur Defies the Arctic Freeze
Polar bears have a built-in defense against ice — greasy fur. A team of scientists has discovered that their fur is coated in ...
Polar bear fur could hold the secret to replacing ‘forever chemicals’
Now, researchers have discovered the bears have another unexpected Arctic adaptation: greasy fur. It’s a trait that, ...
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Antarctic ice sheet may be less vulnerable to collapse than expected
The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...
The U.S. built a covert Cold War base under a Greenland glacier. Its secrets are now being revealed.
What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...
Ice sheets flow over Buffalo’s ice boom into Niagara River
Massive sheets of ice were pushed over the Lake Erie-Niagara River ice boom on Monday as a result of high winds and a powerful Arctic weather front. The ice boom, which is operated by the New York ...
Cold War 2.0? Russia, China And The U.S. Clash Over Arctic Resources
Investment in Pituffik has been inconsistent, however, and its importance has waned since the Cold War. Renewed attention to ...
EU should send troops to Trump-target Greenland, says military chief
The European Union’s top general has said the bloc should deploy troops to Greenland after Donald Trump suggested he could ...
China’s domestically developed six-legged robotic dog debuts in Antarctica
In the ice cap region near China's Zhongshan Station in Antarctica, a domestically developed six-legged robotic dog completes ...
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Lake Mendota froze just long enough to pay out $1,000
Despite officially freezing over on Christmas Day, the ice on Greater Madison’s largest lake seems to be living on borrowed time. Beneath its semi-solid surface, Lake Mendota is in a state of ...