Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to ...

Spring arrives in the polar regions, and the sun appears after an absence of five months; warmth and life return to these ...

Polar Bear Week draws attention to the threats polar bears face in a warming Arctic, the northernmost area of Earth that ...

But this is precisely what understanding death essentially means: grasping that a dead individual can no longer do what they ...

A security guard at the Lincoln Park Zoo was making his rounds around 2 a.m. near the polar bear habitat when he saw a man ...

A young polar bear drops a nest box in an attempt to get black guillemot chicks on Aug. 12, 2024 on Cooper Island in the Arctic Ocean about 25 miles east of Utqiagvik, while its mother rests nearby.

A polar bear has been shot dead in a remote Icelandic village, the latest casualty of growing tensions between humans and the Arctic mammals. Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore ...

ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low fat, low ice diet because of ...

Climate change not only raises global temperatures, it impacts everyone and everything on our planet. As global temperatures ...

Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge remains one of America’s most pristine places. This fall’s election could decide whether the U.S. drills for oil there.

Rode and her colleagues looked to polar bear immune systems for crucial insights. The Chukchi Sea polar bear population was a perfect fit. These bears, native to the waters between Alaska and ...