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 ...

In a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers said they'd hoped polar bears might adapt to longer ice-free seasons by behaving like their grizzly bear relatives.

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 ...

They even eat grass (seaweed), even though that has no energy for them," Jon Aars, the head of the Svalbard polar bear ...

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 World Wildlife Fund reports that 60% of polar bear subpopulations live in Canada. Polar bears live on the sea ice where their favorite snacks (seals) live. You can find polar bears on land ...

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 ...

Shapiro’s Nature Ecology study also focused on what may have happened to other polar bear genomes during periods of low ice—in this case, around 120,000 or 125,000 years ago when, according to ...

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 ...