Kallik and Kallu made their public debut at the St. Louis Zoo on March 25. Kallik and Kallu: The twin polar bear brothers are ...

While the bears enjoy soaking up the sun, warmer weather triggers several physiological changes. Baxendell explained polar ...

At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and ...

Loss of ice due to climate change has a direct impact on the ability of polar bears to feed and survive. The bears need platforms of ice to reach their prey of ringed and bearded seals.

In Svalbard, polar bears build their dens on slopes of fjords ... Despite this clear motivation to get back to hunting seals on the sea ice, polar bear families will often hang out at the den ...

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

But because polar bears (Ursus maritimus ... Eventually, they ventured off toward the sea ice, where the mothers could nab seals—and start to teach the little ones how to hunt.

"And that pushes bears too hard, when they’re on ice they’re hunting seals, gaining fat, getting big and when they come off of that ice they have to fast.” No one wants to see a hungry polar ...

Scientists warned yesterday that the long-term health of Inuit hunters in eastern Greenland was under threat, due to so-called “forever chemicals” ...

Polar bears only hunt for seals when ice is on the bay. "Future projections indicate that polar bears in Western Hudson Bay are among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and ...