Just outside the WWF International Arctic Programme's Arctic Tent at COP 15, visitors were able to see a life-size sculpture of a male hunting polar ... of art melded with science made for a good ...

The bear moves like a silhouette across the landscape ... Neither albino nor polar bear, the spirit bear (also known as the Kermode bear) is a white variant of the North American black bear ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in May 2017, refused to hear a challenge to the critical habitat designation, preserving the polar bear's 120 million protected acres. Unfortunately, oil and gas drilling in ...

Dmitry Kokh (Russia) shares an otherworldly encounter of polar bears taking over an abandoned settlement. As Dmitry's boat approached the small, uninhabited island of Kolyuchin in the remote Russian ...

High-tech tracking collars on nine female polar bears have measured the animals' efforts to find food on the diminishing Arctic ice. Each bear wore a collar - recording video, location and ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in a remote Icelandic village, the latest casualty of growing tensions between humans and the Arctic mammals. Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore ...

As recently as 70,000 years ago, polar bears developed key features to help them survive in extreme arctic conditions. A team of molecular biologists from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark ...

The buzz of excitement at Berlin Zoo was abruptly interrupted by cries of panic and a loud splash as something dropped into the moat within the polar bear enclosure. To the shock of onlookers ...

As the Arctic warms, polar bears now face a greater risk of contracting several pathogens than bears three decades ago, according to a new study. As the Arctic warms, polar bears now face a ...

Living off one of the richest oceans in the Arctic, the polar bears by the Chukchi Sea appear to be thriving. Females are in good health and give birth to healthy cubs. Overall, this Alaskan ...

Climate change and sea ice loss leaves polar bears exposed to more diseases, research suggests. The person who was killed worked at a remote radar site in Canada's Arctic region. Fears about the ...