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

I was just four years old when my family moved to Baffin Island, Canada, where we lived in a remote village among the Indigenous Peoples known as the Inuit. I spent most of my time outside, roaming ...

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 ...

Polar bears appear to be turning to inbreeding for survival. A study published in the Royal Society Journals shows a loss of up to 10% of genetic diversity in the polar bear population from Svalbard ...

As bubbles rippled across the frigid Finnish lake, diver Daan Jacobs emerged from a hole carved out of the thick, crackling ...

Polar bears in one of the fastest-warming parts of the Arctic are showing clear changes in how their DNA behaves, according to a new study. Researchers examined genetic activity in polar bears from ...

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 ...

Seeing any living thing suffer is one of the hardest things to watch. Feeling empathy for an animal in pain is intrinsically human, especially when there’s nothing we can do to help. Several images ...

Researchers reviewed footage from 20 bears. Scientists attached GoPros to Arctic polar bears — here's what's happening first ...