The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species — a mighty hunter and fierce defender of its young that's among the world's most vulnerable animals. Two-thirds of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The "surreal" snap beat out photos of majestic whales, curious foxes and more to snag the top spot Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and ...

A husband and wife survived a rare and terrifying wild encounter with a polar bear. As reported by Amarachi Orie of CNN, a couple from Fort Severn, Canada, near Hudson Bay was in their driveway in ...

The first known "pizzly" bear was spotted in 2006 in the Canadian Arctic Stephanie Wenger is a TV Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She joined the brand in 2021 as a digital news writer, covering stories ...