Is there anything better than diving into cold water in the summertime? Polar bears love plunging into refreshing water as well. These Arctic animals enjoy swimming just like humans do, and one zoo ...

A student swims through the cold water of Occom Pond on Feb. 6. A member of the Hanover Fire Department supervises students ...

Lifeguards have been known to scold rascally swimmers for horseplay around the pool. But would they dare blow the whistle for polar bear play? No megaphone at any volume would have been able to stop ...

Studying close to 800 bears over nearly 25 years shows that polar bear populations in the rapidly warming Barents Sea, off ...

The scene at the Vancouver Polar Bear Swim, one of the oldest polar plunges in the world, is a jubilant one. On Canada’s English Bay Beach, people come dressed in costumes, veteran participants bear ...

It was amazing. I woke up still a bit drunk of course from New Years Eve. To tell you the truth, I wasn’t excited so much for New Years Eve as I was for the Dip. I met up with my friend Don at the Q ...

Clarksville's annual Polar Bear Plunge is set for Feb. 21 at New Providence Pool, raising funds for adaptive and group swim lessons for children ...

The annual Polar Bear Swim at the Annenberg Community Beach House will take place on Sunday, December 18, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. The Beach House Polar Bear Swim has become a tradition just as cold ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- Look, kids, here comes the polar bear! Here he comes around again! And again Again. Nikita the polar bear ...

After a one-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the annual Polar Bear Swim returns to the City of Santa Monica’s Annenberg Community Beach House on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

For years, images of thin polar bears stranded on shrinking ice floes shaped how many people understood climate change in the Arctic. Those photos seemed to confirm dire predictions, that as sea ice ...