I can’t say that this bear was starving because of climate change, but I do know that polar bears rely on a platform of sea ice from which to hunt. A fast-warming Arctic means that sea ice is ...

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 ...

A photographer's iconic shot of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shines a spotlight on wider changes in ...

Under the midnight sun, beside a hole in the Arctic ice, a polar bear found something new—Audun Rikardsen’s camera and motion sensor. The bear sniffed the camera, pawed at it, and knocked it ...

Polar bears are uniquely adapted to survive in one of the harshest environments on Earth. These majestic animals are ...

is concerned that if climate change and sea ice loss continue on their current trajectory, two-thirds of the polar bear population could disappear over the next century. Exhausted, Starving Polar ...

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 ...

The rapid loss of sea ice due to climate change is "driving ... a group camping near Longyearbyen failed, and a polar bear "reported to be starving and emaciated" killed a 17-year-old British ...

The polar bears pass through Churchill, Manitoba, hoping to catch a ride out of the tiny town on Hudson Bay's sea ice. After ...