As climate change reshapes Arctic food webs, ringed seals will swim into risky polar bear territory if the menu is varied ...

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 ...

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

Learn how climate change is shifting the way seals hunt and how a lose of ice could create bigger risks even still.

When many types of fish are available, seals stay longer and dive deeper, even in dangerous areas. This shows that food variety can outweigh fear. In safer areas, seals spend less time diving because ...

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

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 ...

While scientists have long known polar bears are threatened by global heating, this latest study published in Nature Climate ...

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 ...

Rivkin said polar bears spend six to nine months of the year on sea ice and head to land as it melts, only to wait until it ...