The polar bear — the symbol of both climate change and an area warming four times faster than the rest of the world — is the king of fat. When mother polar bears nurse their young — as an Associated ...

University of Bergen and Trinity College researchers have found that polar bear sebum, or hair grease, is as ice-resistant as ...

In the gateway to the Arctic, fat, ice and polar bears are crucial. All three are in trouble. A polar bear nurses her cub, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, near Churchill, Manitoba.

Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low fat, low ice diet because of climate change. There ...

Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low-fat, low-ice diet because of climate change. And it ...

The largest polar bear ever recorded was taken in Alaska in 1960. This giant was nearly 12 feet tall and weighed an incredible 2,209 pounds. The average adult male in the U.S. is about 5 feet 9 ...