Life in the Arctic is harsh and unforgiving, but the polar bear has perfected survival in one of the most extreme ...

The polar vortex could bring life-threatening weather conditions to some of the worst-hit areas, as well as record-breaking low temperatures. For many Americans, next week will be yet another cold ...

Some Manitoba researchers are looking into the potential impact and overlap of wildfires with polar bear denning habitat.

See where 14 polar bears are moving through Hudson Bay, and learn their stories. As Hudson Bay slowly enters the winter freeze-up, Churchill’s famous polar bears have began disappearing onto the ice ...

Searching for a polar bear in a snowstorm is something akin to looking for a needle in a haystack. It’s a mid-November day and whiteout conditions prevail on the banks of Canada’s Hudson Bay ...

Starting today, on International Polar Bear Day (Feb. 27), people around the world will be able to see the bears in their natural habitat.

The dots on the left map show the locations where samples from Greenland polar bears were collected. The new Southeast Greenland population, shown as red dots, is located between 60 and 64 degrees ...

The polar-bear specialist group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has identified 19 distinct populations that live in markedly different habitats (see map).

Around 100,000 years ago, a polar bear found herself a few miles from present-day Lonely, Alaska. There, near the sea, the bear died. But her contribution to science had just begun.

If you live near polar bears, ‘bear-dar’ could save your life These mighty carnivores are spending more time near humans, scavenging for food. A portable radar unit might prevent the type of ...

The polar bears near Churchill, Manitoba -- a town in central Canada along the Hudson Bay considered to be the polar bear capital of the world -- are the world's most studied sub population ...

A female polar bear swam for a record-breaking nine days straight, traversing 426 miles (687 kilometers) of water—equivalent to the distance between Washington, D.C., and Boston, a new study says.