Adorable polar bear cub clambers up his mother’s back before losing his balance

He’s lost his bearings! Adorable polar bear cub clambers up his mother’s back before losing his balance and taking a tumble in Canada An adorable polar bear cub was pictured tumbling off its mum into the snow in Wapusk National Park, Canada The three-month-old cub’s fall was a surprise for its sibling as they played and … Read more

Polar bear cubs get their first swimming lesson with the help of their human foster mother

This is the adorable moment two orphan polar bears got their first swimming lesson from an adoptive human foster mother.  The cubs were born in captivity in December to a mother who refused to feed and raise them but six women at a Russian safari park stepped in to care for the helpless crying pair.  … Read more

Bizarre ‘spiders’ on Mars are made by carbon dioxide vapor escaping from cracks in polar ice

The Spiders from Mars isn’t just the name of David Bowie’s backing band in the 1970s—it’s the nickname given to mysterious formations on Mars that resemble creepy black arachnids. These ‘araneiforms’ (Latin for ‘spider-like’) were first observed 20 years ago, but astronomers have finally determined they’re caused by carbon dioxide vapor escaping from cracks in … Read more

Frost-bitten Britain: Polar winds see UK suffer third sub-zero morning in row

Frost-bitten Britain: Polar winds see UK suffer third sub-zero morning in row with -6C lows and snow risk (and you’ll STILL need to wrap up warm for return of al fresco dining on April 12) Yellow snow warning is in place across northern Scotland until 10am, with warnings of transport disruption It came after temperatures … Read more

Experts fear polar bears lack skills to find new food as they adapt to climate change 

Foraging peril of polar bears as experts fear they could lack skills to find new food as they adapt to climate change Researchers studied polar bears in Canadian Arctic tracking them over 11 days Bears usually hunt seals from floating ice but climate change means ice melted Bears have resorted to eating birds eggs on … Read more

You’re so funny, Mummy! Polar bear cub ‘laughs’ as it plays with its mother at Russian zoo 

You’re so funny, Mummy! Polar bear cub ‘laughs’ as it plays with its mother at Russian zoo Kolymana, an eight-year-old mother polar bear, has been photographed ‘laughing’ with one of her cubs Photographer Natalya Okoneshnikova snapped the polar bear and her cub sharing the playful moment Kolymana lives with her two cubs at the Orto-Doydu Zoo in … Read more

Polar bear is spotted 300 miles inland from the Arctic coast in Russia

Lost polar bear wanders 300 miles from its natural habitat: Animal is seen running south in Russia – further and further from its food source Footage shows the lost predator running in front of a car on a desolate highway It was 300 miles from the Arctic and heading ever further south towards Yakutsk  Officials … Read more

Coldest winter for eight years will continue this week with ‘polar spring’ bringing minus 5C chills

Climate change could cause summers in Britain and to last SIX MONTHS by the end of this century, suggests a new study. Without efforts to slow the shifting climate, summers spanning almost half the year may become the new normal north of the Equator by 2100, say scientists. The change would likely have a far-reaching … Read more

POLAR CAPITAL GLOBAL: Trust well placed for recovery

POLAR CAPITAL GLOBAL FINANCIALS TRUST: £221m trust is well placed for the recovery By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 6 March 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 6 March 2021 Investment trust Polar Capital Global Financials represents a big market play on economic recovery. If the world economy bounces back as many … Read more

Northern delights: The Nordic islands offer everything from polar bears to Scandi chic

On Friday afternoons in summer, Stockholm residents hop on ferries in front of the National Museum and stream out of the capital to the 30,000 or so islands that lie nearby. You can check in to your own retreat at the Seglarhotell overlooking the harbour on Sandhamn, the furthest island out in Stockholm’s archipelago before … Read more