If you thought winter was cold where you live, just imagine how a polar bear must feel! These amazing animals live on coastal ice fields and floating ice in the Arctic Ocean, where they hunt for seals ...

The study’s authors emphasize the importance of continued monitoring across different regions. Scientists 'surprised' by ...

Polar bears in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas are spending dramatically more time on land than at any point in the modern tracking record, with up to 50% of some populations now summering onshore ...

For years, images of thin polar bears stranded on shrinking ice floes shaped how many people understood climate change in the Arctic. Those photos seemed to confirm dire predictions, that as sea ice ...

Polar bears are, as Pagano explained, 'ambush predators' that hang around areas they think seals are in and wait by breathing ...

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There's love in the polar bear enclosure. A Madison zoo has introduced two bears as part of the Polar Bear Population Alliance.

The haunting polar bear photo is one of 24 finalists for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award ...

Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. These giant bears hunt, mate and spend their days hanging out on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing as the climate ...

The finding offers a small window of hope for a polar bear population vulnerable to the effects of climate change. A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walks on pack ice in Svalbard, Norway. The effects ...

Such tools could help scientists track population sizes or recognize aggressive animals that have attacked humans ...