Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far north populations. Temperatures in the Arctic region are warming more ...

The bears have been isolated for hundreds of years. The article has been corrected. For centuries, sea ice was deemed essential for polar bears to survive. Generations of the Arctic bears ventured ...

One consequence of climate change and a warming planet - polar bears are spending more time on land instead of Arctic ice. This means more interactions with humans. Scientists say attacks are rare ...

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

Polar bears, unable to thrive on land in Canada's Hudson Bay, are facing greater risk of starvation as Arctic ice melts and they endure longer ice-free seasons, researchers said. In a study ...

The majestic polar bear leaps across the water, landing on an ice sheet with a semi-belly flop. That’s one of the sights tourist Emma Postolec caught during an Arctic cruise on Sept. 27.

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 ...

Here’s how it works. Polar bears are developing horrific wounds on their paws due to changing ice conditions in the Arctic, a new study reports. In the most severe cases, researchers describe ...

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

Polar bears have a hidden-in-a-plain-sight superpower that anyone who has watched a wildlife documentary could have spotted: ice doesn’t stick to their fur. This has long been known to ...

And we just basically sit and we watch the bears until the ice returns. It's wonderful to watch." But as climate change intensifies, the Hudson Bay ice that forms the polar bears' habitat is not ...