Map of polar bear range from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Five nations with turf inside the Arctic Circle are calling for action to save the polar bear. I do not believe Gov. Sarah Palin got to ...

We were camped in the Northwest Territories conducting research when our camp dog started barking. Then the polar bear ...

You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it into the usual stories. They deal with extreme cold, hunt in ways no other ...

A rare polar bear attack in Wales, Alaska, highlights how melting ice is pushing the Arctic carnivores out of their habitat. ... raise cubs and hunt seals to sustain their high-fat diet.

Tasul the polar bear is helping scientists collect valuable information on how bears are reacting to climate change by wearing a high-tech collar in her enclosure at the Oregon Zoo.

Polar bears in Canada's Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey released Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, found. (Sean ...

According to Griffen’s research, recently published in Polar Biology, it costs polar bears five times as much energy to swim as it does to walk the same distance.That cost became enormous in one case ...

Study finds polar bears are suited to high-fat, low-protein diet – the reverse of what they’ve historically been fed in captivity Jan. 13, 2022 Updated Thu., Jan. 13, 2022 at 10:23 a.m.

Polar Bears Film Their Own Sea Ice World by USGS on YouTube. This time, the video cameras worked. When we recovered them, we had collected eight to 11 days of footage showing polar bears' behavior ...

In 1954, Manitoba banned polar bear hunting, and, in 1969, the province established a “Polar Bear Control” program meant to protect the community from stubborn, hungry or overly curious bears.

The last fatal polar bear attack to occur in Alaska was in December 1990. Similar to Tuesday's, the 1990 attack was unprovoked. York said that in 1990, it had been a thin and hungry bear.

This combination makes polar bear fur highly resistant to freezing, Holst says. Lab tests showed that it performed about as well as fluorinated ski waxes, which have been banned in Norway for ...