Polar bears are intensely curious animals. That curiosity often brings them into contact with people and can put both species ...

Polar bears are particularly vulnerable to climate change, as they rely on sea ice to hunt seals. A new study analyzed a small subpopulation of polar bears in southeastern Greenland and found small ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of the continent, far above the Arctic Circle, to feast on whale carcasses left ...

Polar bears have been getting fatter even as sea ice disappears in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, the fastest-warming place on Earth – but scientists don’t expect the good times to last. The northern ...

Kallik — pronounced Kah-LEEK — came to our state all the way from the Saint Louis Zoo in Missouri. Even though he was only born in November of 2022, he already weighs in at a whopping 700 pounds.

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures more than two-thirds of polar bears are expected to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polar Bear mother with her cubs in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada. Right now, polar bear moms are tending to their newborn ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. Subscribe to read ...

The world’s polar bear population has been in decline for a while, due to climate change. But some bears at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison could be doing their part to reverse that trend — with a ...