Scientists are urging governments to fund better waste management in Arctic villages. Experts issue urgent warning after ...

"We were super surprised because we never expected to meet polar bears so far to the south. At this time of the year, they should be on the sea ice already, and on Wrangel Island, normally." ...

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 ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in ... The rapid loss of sea ice due to climate change is "driving hungry bears to land and putting both at risk". From our morning news briefing to a weekly ...

Wildlife is abundant in this remote and fragile area, and we were looking for seals and polar bears. NGM Maps When we anchored the boat at the fjord ice, we spotted several seals resting on the ...

Frostpaw the polar bear with the melting ice bear. Artist Mark Coreth and his team from the Ice Bear Project carved this beautiful polar bear out of ice on December 5, 2009, in Copenhagen’s Nytorv ...

Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present.

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...