Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.

Over the past few decades, the polar bear population in Canada’s western Hudson Bay has dropped dramatically. Archer: “There’s about half as many polar bears there in recent years, compared to the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — The Trump administration appears to be leaving no stone unturned with its sweeping tariffs around the globe, from rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic to tiny ...

In conservation, the term "flagship species" is used to refer to animals that represent something bigger, like an entire ...

Imagine a place where golden caribou herds roam beneath endless summer skies, polar bears dig dens deep into wind-scoured ...

Ny-Ålesund in Norway's Arctic is the world's most northerly settlement. A team of scientists surrounded by glaciers, polars bears, walruses and arctic foxes call this hostile env ...

To reach the geographic North Pole is to go where few have tread. Only a handful of vessels in history have ever made this ...

The polar bear was named Bruin and was one of two captured by whalers in 1878 from the ice on Davis Strait, a sea passage between Canada and Greenland. They were taken to Dundee, where they were ...

"We saw one, then we saw another one, then 20 of them. And they all were inside this building." Abandoned since 1992, the ...

To date, 2017 was the year with the lowest sea ice extent. This negative record has now been broken, according to the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).