Scientists are urging governments to fund better waste management in Arctic villages. Experts issue urgent warning after ...

Polar bears range across the Arctic Ocean, in parts of Canada, Alaska, Russia, Greenland and Norway (Svalbard). They can walk on ice or swim long distances to find food or breed – sometimes roaming ...

Polar bear walking on the tundra near the Tundra Buggy Lodge at night. Neil Ever Osborne If sea ice continues to shrink, scientists say, fewer polar bear cubs will be born, fewer will survive and ...

Polar bears don’t have to worry about skipping a wash day. The sebum, or natural oil, on the mammals’ fur helps them survive ...

It shows a mother polar bear walking through the frozen landscape — then a cub pops up out of the den and slips and slides over the ice toward her. As the cub reaches its mom, another two emerge ...

"If you want to lock eyes with a bear, you've got to make your way to Churchill," said John Gunter, CEO of Frontiers North, a ...

There was a lot more fjord ice in front of the glacier than there had been on the previous trip, and we wondered whether it would be safe to walk so far from the boat. As I knew well, polar bears ...

Polar bears perch on sea ice to ambush seals—the source of 90 ... It’s a cold and foggy June afternoon; the inlet we’re walking along is still frozen. Clouds have covered the sun for days ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in ... The rapid loss of sea ice due to climate change is "driving hungry bears to land and putting both at risk". From our morning news briefing to a weekly ...