Then the polar bear appears. She’s big ... “They think of it as an ice cap. They think that it’s rigid and that when it melts it’s just melting back on the edges. They don’t think ...

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.

Some polar bears face starvation as the Arctic sea ice melts because they are unable to adapt their diets to living on land, scientists have found. The iconic Arctic species normally feed on ...

Frostpaw the polar bear with the melting ice bear. Artist Mark Coreth and his team from the Ice Bear Project carved this beautiful polar bear out of ice on December 5, 2009, in Copenhagen’s Nytorv ...

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 ...