As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their hunting grounds are shrinking, food is becoming harder to find, and their ...

In the eyes of a human being, a polar bear looks white, particularly in the snowy and icy Arctic environment. This visual ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far north populations. Temperatures in the Arctic region are warming more ...

The increase in bears in the town is thought to be caused by climate change. — -- Polar bears are an enduring symbol of the wild arctic, a mighty beast that has made its home in punishing ...

Churchill, Canada — On a cold November morning in the subarctic Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba, Ian Van Nest sits in the warmth of his SUV and peers through binoculars at a pair of polar bears ...

A polar bear feasts on a seal it captured in the receding tide along the Hudson Bay Lowlands. Ryan St. John peers through his binoculars on the shore of Hudson Bay near his home community of Arviat, ...

The skull of an ancient polar bear, nicknamed Bruno, was found on the coast of the Beaufort Sea in 2009. It is the only ancient polar bear skull ever recorded and the only ancient polar bear bone ...