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

They mainly eat seals – using their remarkable sense of smell they can detect a seal in the water beneath a metre of compacted ... Emmanuel Rondeau / WWF-UK "I will never forget my 'first' polar bear.

I had long dreamed of taking a picture of a polar bear while it waited beside a breathing hole, hoping to grab a seal. I knew it would be a difficult photo to get, but here I could see it ...

The polar bear is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding landmasses. A boar (adult male ...

We have been walking for ages and we didn't find anything to eat ... a brown bear was born that had lighter fur, almost white - so when he crept up on a seal… SAM: The seal didn't see him ...

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 ...