Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...

How we can take action to save polar bears as a wild species - and save ourselves in the process. Some readers of the WWF International Arctic Programme website have wondered why WWF is not taking ...

Dmitry Kokh captured polar bears looking out of the windows of an abandoned weather station on Kolyuchin Island in Russia (Credit: Dmitry Kokh) A photographer's iconic shot of polar bears in ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...