Plungers ran into the cold Chesapeake Bay this weekend marking the 29th annual Special Olympics Maryland Polar Bear Plunge.

You’re a polar bear. You want to be one with the snow ... “I hate the snow, but I’m happy for these guys,” says one person in the comments. And who wouldn’t be. It’s probably not ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

and that is Polar Bear Plunge Day (brrr!). My boyfriend’s family refers to the event as an avanto, the Finnish word that translates to “hole in the ice.” This refers to the practice of ...