The footage, taken on the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, shows a mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus) plodding through the ...

This experiment showed that the ice adhesion of unwashed polar bear fur is exceptionally low. While the often-accepted ...

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 ...

After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen home to hunt seals and bulk up. But their migration ritual is changing.

Scientists combined satellite collars and cameras to study polar bear denning, showing how cubs adapt before leaving.

Despite this clear motivation to get back to hunting seals on the sea ice, polar bear families will often hang out at the den ...

Just on the edge of the western Hudson Bay lies the small town of Churchill, Manitoba. Here, the sea meets the boreal forest ...

Wildlife is abundant in this remote and fragile area, and we were looking for seals and polar bears. NGM Maps When we anchored the boat at the fjord ice, we spotted several seals resting on the ...

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 ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. We see evidence of the kill first: a shockingly broad spread of scarlet, probably the blood of a ringed seal, on snow ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in ... The rapid loss of sea ice due to climate change is "driving hungry bears to land and putting both at risk". From our morning news briefing to a weekly ...

The polar bears pass through Churchill, Manitoba, hoping to catch a ride out of the tiny town on Hudson Bay's sea ice. After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen ...