Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far north populations.

Polar bears can both hitch a ride on drifting ice floes and swim comfortably in icy water. Photo: Jerry Kobalenko The idea ...

Before heading out to do their fieldwork, Dr. Stephanie Collins, Jing Lu and their team would scan the horizon, get tips from ...

Out of the fog, a ten-foot-wide chunk of ice appears—a flash of white, visible for maybe 15 seconds. On it: a polar bear, drifting wherever the ocean wants to take it.

A new study signals potential future stress for bears already coping with a warming environment in Alaska and Siberia.

Researchers believe they have found possible evidence that polar bears lived in Scotland during the last ice age. Scientists previously suspected some of the remains found deep in Inchnadamph's ...

All this is crucial as climate change leads to shrinking ice coverage, which leaves polar bears’ preferred meal of seals further out of reach. Ice-free seasons have also extended, which means ...

Step out onto an ice floe in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, and watch and listen as scientists race the fading light to set up one of the most ambitious international climate collaborations ever, ...

Ian Van Nest is a conservation officer who keeps interactions between polar bears ... and sometimes fierce bears is an essential job for Van Nest and many others. And it’s become harder as climate ...