These polar bears appear to be maintaining their physical health despite the loss of sea ice—their preferred hunting grounds ...

Arctic temperatures are rising nearly four times faster than those in the rest of the world, resulting in the loss of sea ice ...

Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors found, the body condition of both male and female polar bears—i.e., how ...

The finding offers a small window of hope for a polar bear population vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

For years, images of thin polar bears stranded on shrinking ice floes shaped how many people understood climate change in the ...

Polar bears can struggle to adapt to climate change. Bears on Svalbard may be surviving on land prey and seals — but scientists warn it may not last.

Polar bears near Svalbard are gaining fat despite sea ice loss, revealing how some Arctic wildlife is adapting to warming.

Scientists think that Svalbard bears have adapted to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey.

Polar bears need ice for their long term survival as less or shrinking ice forces these creatures to travel long distances in ...

Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published Monday that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime. In some ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...

The haunting polar bear photo is one of 24 finalists for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award ...