The fuzzy white predators of Svalbard, Norway, have been getting fatter over the past two decades, possibly by changing their diets and hunting strategies, a new study suggests ...

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

In an Arctic where most polar bears are losing weight along with the sea ice they depend on, one group has startled researchers by turning up in robust health and carrying thick layers of fat. The ...

A 13-year-old male polar bear has arrived at his new home, the Detroit Zoo, after a trade with the Toledo Zoo.

In a warming world, the polar bear has become the unofficial mascot of ecological collapse. We’ve all seen the photos of ...

The 30th annual Special Olympics Maryland Polar Bear Plunge looked different than past years due to the extreme cold and a ...

Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. Researchers took more than 1,000 body measurements ...

A new romance is unfolding in Como Park Zoo & Conservatory’s polar bear habitat — and zookeepers say it could help shape the future of polar bears in North ...

It’s hard to look at a polar bear and not feel a mix of awe and alarm. They’re massive and built for survival on Arctic ice. While polar bear encounters are rare for most people, they do happen. And ...

Kali, now 13, was rescued as a cub in 2013 after residents of the Native Village of Point Lay, Alaska, discovered he’d been ...

The BBC reported terrible news last week about polar bears: they are thriving. This is very annoying of them as it goes ...