It's a beautiful story out of the arctic to end your year on a good note. A polar bear mom took on a second (presumably orphaned) cub in only the 13th recorded case of adoption for this species in the ...

Meet our story’s protagonist: a female polar bear. Displaced by shrinking sea ice in the Arctic, she was forced to wander south, deeper into the Canadian Northwest Territories. Here, our lady in white ...

Polar bears are particularly vulnerable to climate change, as they rely on sea ice to hunt seals. A new study analyzed a small subpopulation of polar bears in southeastern Greenland and found small ...

As the sea ice melts due to climate change, the trend of polar bears getting thinner and having fewer cubs has been well documented in areas such as Baffin Bay, a stretch of ocean between Greenland ...

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