Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay, the most studied group of polar bears in the world.

White fur, blubbery skin, sharp claws. Polar bears seem perfectly adapted to their frigid habitat up north. Now, researchers have discovered the bears have another unexpected Arctic adaptation ...

Compared to a few decades ago, polar bears living near Alaska are now more frequently exposed to five different pathogens, researchers report October 23 in PLOS ONE.

Authorities in Ontario say a Fort Severn man was injured while fighting off a polar bear that attacked his wife in their driveway. He was then saved by his neighbor, who shot and killed the bear. The ...

You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it ...

The Washington Post warned in 2004 that the species could face extinction, and the World Wildlife Fund’s chief scientist claimed some polar bear populations would be unable to reproduce by 2012 ...

As the Arctic warms, polar bears now face a greater risk of contracting several pathogens than bears three decades ago. Karyn Rode and Caroline Van Hemert of the U.S. Geological Survey report ...

A female polar bear sits on rocks, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel) CHURCHILL, Manitoba — Sgt. Ian Van Nest rolls slowly through the streets of ...

Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other ... but now they’re essentially absent from headlines. ... then quietly dropped them without apology when the opposing evidence becomes overwhelming.