a large white seabird with a yellowish head, trapped in discarded fishing gear hanging from a cliff. The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) photograph highlights the scale of plastic pollution in the ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

The endangered classification for Polar Bears could come within weeks ... which in turn feeds sea birds, whales and dolphins ...