Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

Scientists are urging governments to fund better waste management in Arctic villages. Experts issue urgent warning after ...

An international team of scientists unlocked the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur, a discovery that could revolutionize ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive ... between melting sea ice and polar bears dying off, there is no way to know for certain why this bear was on the verge ...

Frostpaw the polar bear with the melting ice bear. Artist Mark Coreth and his team from the Ice Bear Project carved this beautiful polar bear out of ice on December 5, 2009, in Copenhagen’s Nytorv ...

University of Wyoming researchers John Whiteman and Merav Ben-David inspect a temperature logger implantation site on a polar bear on off-shore sea ice north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in April 2009.

The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species ... by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led ...

Under the midnight sun, beside a hole in the Arctic ice, a polar bear found something new—Audun Rikardsen’s camera and motion sensor. The bear sniffed the camera, pawed at it, and knocked it ...

Polar bears are uniquely adapted to survive in one of the harshest environments on Earth. These majestic animals are beautiful, and let’s face it, their cuddly cubs are undeniably adorable.

Over the past few decades, the polar bear population in Canada’s western Hudson Bay has dropped dramatically. Archer: “There’s about half as many polar bears there in recent years, compared to the ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...