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 ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not too long ago I was the guide on a wildlife-photography trip to Svalbard, an archipelago halfway between Norway ...

The "surreal" snap beat out photos of majestic whales, curious foxes and more to snag the top spot Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and ...

Polar bear cubs in the Arctic are beginning to emerge from their dens. Until now, the babies have been relying on nutrients from their mother's milk to go from hairless, blind cubs to bears ready ...