The photographer of a stunning image of a polar bear drifting off to sleep on a bed of ice won the Natural History Museum's 2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, drawing attention to the ...

Rapidly melting sea ice driven by climate change, a crisis that has transformed the Arctic into a litmus test for our ...

Melting ice is forcing polar bears on land. Polar bear patrols can help As climate change warms up the planet, polar bears are pushed closer to human habitats, leading to dangerous interactions.

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

Ice balls on polar bear feet are much less common and some unusual conditions are needed for them to occur.” Laidre and Atkinson believe that a warming climate may have played a role ...

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 ...

The Greenland ice sheet borders them to the west, while open ocean borders them to the east, limiting their travel and interaction with other polar bear populations. The team isn’t certain how ...

A study found that on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, polar bear populations have seen a 10% loss in their genetic diversity from 1995 to 2016. A 2020 study found that the melting sea ice ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

A polar bear’s paws are better suited for swimming, and the pads are covered in fur to give a firmer grip on ice. Polar bears also have smaller ears and shorter legs than a griz. Both bears have ...

MORE: Prolonged ice-free periods putting Hudson Bay polar bear population at risk of extinction: Study The melting of the sea ice has shortened the polar bears' feeding season, which has resulted ...

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease largely removed it performed similarly to human hair, to which ice ...