The polar bear population in the southern Beaufort Sea dropped by roughly 40 percent between 2001 and 2010, according to a new study by U.S. and Canadian scientists.

Millions have seen the heart-wrenching video of a polar bear clinging to life, its white hair limply covering its thin, bony frame. Shot by Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier of the nonprofit ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service updated rules governing how much Arctic oil drilling can bother the Beaufort Sea’s protected ...

Prof. Andrew Derocher, pilot Mike Woodcock and the study's lead author, Nick Pilfold, left to right, measure a polar bear in the Beaufort Sea region in 2011. Between 2007 and 2012, ...

USGS biologist Todd Atwood weighs a polar bear on the southern Beaufort Sea. Climate change has caused the ice to become too thin in recent years to safely allow for these kind of polar bear ...

Scientists say they have found a link between human-related greenhouse gas emissions and polar bear reproduction and survival rates for the first time in a new study, potentially overcoming a ...

The skull of an ancient polar bear, nicknamed Bruno, was found on the coast of the Beaufort Sea in 2009. It is the only ancient polar bear skull ever recorded and the only ancient polar bear bone ...

Beaufort Sea polar bears equipped in 2014 and 2015 with Fitbit-like devices and neck cameras revealed their daily routines to scientists studying their food needs.

Trump official stalls polar bear study that could affect oil drilling in Alaska U.S. Geological Survey Director James Reilly has blocked the release of his own scientists’ findings for months ...

Beaufort Author Kim Poovey will be signing copies of her book, Through Button Eyes, on Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. at the Pratt Memorial Library in Ridgeland. ... The bear and his child, ...