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 ...

If you ask children or college students to draw pictures to illustrate climate change, chances are that polar bears will make ...

Imagine a world where the polar bear, stranded on a shrinking ice floe, could stand before a court and demand justice for its threatened existence. It sounds almost surreal, even whimsical — yet the ...

Since WCCO first visited Churchill in 1993, the polar bear population here has been cut in half, according to estimates ...

While science has established that there is a strong connection between melting sea ice and polar bears dying off, there is no way to know for certain why this bear was on the verge of death.

Drifting ice is normal for midsummer in the region ... that is disappearing faster than most of us realise and appreciate the scary future most polar bears are facing, with ever-thinner ice or no ice ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As sea ice melts and ocean patterns shift, pollutants from Siberian rivers are ...

Step out onto an ice floe in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, and watch and listen as scientists race the fading light to set up one of the most ambitious international climate collaborations ever, ...

By the end, they can weigh up to 50% more! Polar bears rely on sea ice for their survival. They live in areas north of the Arctic Circle, including Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Russia, and parts of ...

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 ...