A drowsy polar bear curling up on a drifting iceberg in Norway fetched this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award. The image was taken by British amateur photographer ...

Nima Sarikhani's image of a polar bear snatching a nap on a small iceberg won top honors in the People's Choice category of ...

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...

“Scientists are already unpleasantly surprised at how quickly the impacts of warming such as sea ice loss are showing up in the polar regions, exceeding recent predictions.” Global average warming due ...

They then compared the performance of polar bear hair with human hair and two human-made ski skins. A polar bear’s insulating fur shown under infrared heat imaging taken with a FLIR E75 24o ...