A happy day out to the zoo was shattered when a woman fell into the polar bear exhibit and started swimming towards the ...

Courtesy of Christopher Paetkau A polar bear peacefully snoozing in a pillowy bed of flowers beat out some amazing shots to win the Nature Photography Contest! The winner of the second annual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But no matter the temperature, folks from around the region tested their bravery by jumping into the cold ... fittingly dressing up as a polar bear.

Today, the island harbours the greatest concentration of polar bears on the planet ... Adult walruses are too dangerous to attack for a bear, but it became clear that some had learned that ...