The federal government halted boat polar bear viewing in Kaktovik over five years ago, following criticism from the community ...

After one of the warmest Novembers on record across Northern Canada, Hudson Bay, the seasonal lifeline for polar bears, has remained unusually ice-free. Now, attention is on the polar vortex, as the ...

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As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their hunting grounds are shrinking, food is becoming harder to find, and their ...

In the debate over the possibility of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, polar bears play an important, if silent, role. At issue is whether oil development, especially ...

Feb. 27 was International Polar Bear Day. I hope all your readers will take a moment to think not only about these animals but about our relationship to all life on Earth. Here are the “bear facts” ...

Yet in the past 12 years, at least 467 species have gone extinct, with most of these creatures — including a type of rodent called the melomy and a Hawaiian tree snail called Achatinella apexfulva — ...

Watching a polar bear roam across Arctic tundra sounds like an expedition reserved for wealthy travelers. In practice, a ...

Each year on February 27, International Polar Bear Day draws attention to one of the Arctic’s most powerful predators, the polar bear Ursus maritimus. These large marine mammals rely on sea ice to ...