Arctic temperatures are rising nearly four times faster than those in the rest of the world, resulting in the loss of sea ice there. Yet, one group of polar bears—which rely on sea ice to hunt their ...

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 ...

I was just four years old when my family moved to Baffin Island, Canada, where we lived in a remote village among the Indigenous Peoples known as the Inuit. I spent most of my time outside, roaming ...

Seeing any living thing suffer is one of the hardest things to watch. Feeling empathy for an animal in pain is intrinsically human, especially when there’s nothing we can do to help. Several images ...

A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the sea ice melts rapidly.

Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published Monday that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime. In some ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...

Polar bears near Svalbard are gaining fat despite sea ice loss, revealing how some Arctic wildlife is adapting to warming.

Scientists think that Svalbard bears have adapted to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey.

The documentary Nuisance Bear presents a nuanced problem plaguing the Polar Bear Capital of the World without pointing ...