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 ...

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 ...

In recognition of the high standard of entries, 25 extra images were selected by the Natural History Museum and put to the public vote. Justin’s whole body pained as he watched this starving polar ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not too long ago I was the guide on a wildlife-photography trip to Svalbard, an archipelago halfway between Norway ...

Researchers have captured extremely rare footage of polar bear cubs leaving their snowy dens for the first time. The footage, ...

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 ...

On Hudson Bay’s frigid shores, scientists track the animals to better understand how the environment is shaping their chances of survival Photographs by Neil Ever Osborne; Text by Neil Ever ...

Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on MTV, The Frisky, Vice, and Best Friends Magazine. February 27 is ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in a remote Icelandic village, the latest casualty of growing tensions between humans and the Arctic mammals. Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore ...

Churchill, Canada — Here on the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, ...