With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

Polar bears enjoy swimming in cold water for hunting, cooling off, and playing, and they are majestic to watch.

Polar bears are fearsome predators, but thankfully, most of us will never have to worry about encountering them in the wild.

They even eat grass (seaweed), even though that has no energy for them," Jon Aars, the head of the Svalbard polar bear programme, told AFP. "If they have very little sea ice, they necessarily ...

The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words ...

Arctic foxes and polar bears often try to root out the pups for dinner. Brendan is trying to understand how flooding the snow for sea ice thickening could impact seal reproduction. Kelly: ...

We know there’s trouble with polar bear habitat (the polar bear is also known as white bear, nanook, sea bear and ice bear). We also know some polar phenomena might cease to exist in our lifetime.

Dramatic Melting of Arctic Ice Can Lead to Extinction of Polar Bears by the End of the Century: Scientists Warn The Arctic ...