Watching a polar bear roam across Arctic tundra sounds like an expedition reserved for wealthy travelers. In practice, a careful traveler can arrange the experience for a cost similar to a mid-range ...

Climate change has increased the number of days where sea ice is too thin for polar bears to hunt seals. Climate change has increased the number of days where sea ice is too thin for polar bears to ...

Polar bears depend on frozen ocean surfaces more than any other land predator. The ice functions as a platform where they ...

"Nutritional stress does play a role. It's just that it doesn't appear to be the role that we thought it was, just driving ...

Polar bear encounters with humans are a regular concern for scientists and communities near polar bear habitats, but new research is showing the bears' reasons for coming in contact with humans might ...

Conventional thinking is that bears wander near people when they’re hungry and searching for a bite, but a new study says it’s more likely they just happened to be in the neighbourhood. That’s what ...

Aromatic attractants like meat caches, campsites, cooking areas, and sled-dog yards also lure them with the reward of food.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Land-based diets provide a counterintuitive nutritional void that fails to replace marine-derived fats. Researchers utilized ...