"A polar bear can smell a human from miles away." Video captures chilling moment polar bear approaches massive rig: 'They are ...

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 ...

Neil Ever Osborne On the bay this fall morning, there’s a wind-carved rim of ice and a gathering of floes. One male polar bear, bony after a season without seal blubber, struggles along the ...

An international team of scientists unlocked the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur, a discovery that could revolutionize ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We were super surprised because we never expected to meet polar bears so far to the south. At this time of the year, they should be on the sea ice already, and on Wrangel Island, normally." ...

Today, the island harbours the greatest concentration of polar ... bears swim to its shores Every summer, an estimated thousand or more bears swim to its shores, as they wait for the sea ice ...