Polar bears—one of the most important apex predators in the food chain—are facing population decline amid climate change and ...

I was just four years old when my family moved to Baffin Island, Canada, where we lived in a remote village among the Indigenous Peoples known as the Inuit. I spent most of my time outside, roaming ...

Polar bears appear to be turning to inbreeding for survival. A study published in the Royal Society Journals shows a loss of up to 10% of genetic diversity in the polar bear population from Svalbard ...

Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published Monday that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime. In some ...

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures more than two-thirds of polar bears are expected to be ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...

Polar bears near the remote archipelago of Svalbard are getting heavier, not thinner, even as the sea ice they depend on continues to shrink. New research points to conservation history as a key ...

Seeing any living thing suffer is one of the hardest things to watch. Feeling empathy for an animal in pain is intrinsically human, especially when there’s nothing we can do to help. Several images ...