The BBC reported terrible news last week about polar bears: they are thriving. This is very annoying of them as it goes ...

In parts of the Arctic, polar bears are in decline as sea ice, which they depend on to hunt, disappears. That is not the case, however, on the Norwegian island of Svalbard, where bears have actually ...

Polar bears near Svalbard are gaining fat despite sea ice loss, revealing how some Arctic wildlife is adapting to warming.

Each year on 27, International Polar Bear Day draws attention to one of the Arctic’s most powerful predators, the polar bear ...

Studying close to 800 bears over nearly 25 years shows that polar bear populations in the rapidly warming Barents Sea, off ...

Find out why some populations of polar bears are thriving as others struggle from the effects of warming temperatures.

Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors found, the body condition of both male and female polar bears—i.e., how ...

The challenge of coexistence — whether between different peoples or between humans and animals — infuses every frame of ...

But no creature is more tied to the image of a long, cozy winter than hibernating bears all snuggled up in their dens. This ...

I’d like to attribute my obsession with polar bears to a family tradition. My older cousins were given stuffed white Gund bears when they were born, and when I came out a decade later, the same polar ...

The documentary Nuisance Bear presents a nuanced problem plaguing the Polar Bear Capital of the World without pointing ...