Frostpaw the polar bear with the melting ice bear. Artist Mark Coreth and his team from the Ice Bear Project carved this beautiful polar bear out of ice on December 5, 2009, in Copenhagen’s Nytorv ...

An international team of scientists unlocked the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur, a discovery that could revolutionize ...

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 ...

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. We see evidence of the kill first: a shockingly broad spread of scarlet, probably the blood of a ringed seal, on snow ...

"We were super surprised because we never expected to meet polar bears so far to the south. At this time of the year, they should be on the sea ice already, and on Wrangel Island, normally." ...

Wildlife is abundant in this remote and fragile area, and we were looking for seals and polar bears. NGM Maps When we anchored the boat at the fjord ice, we spotted several seals resting on the ...

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 ...