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

Polar Bears International is recognized as the world’s leading polar bear conservation organization, driving research, education, and Arctic protection initiatives. Learn how their science-based ...

The Detroit Zoo’s Arctic Ring of Life recently welcomed a new male polar bear named Kali through a coordinated animal ...

The author and his neighbors in Point Lay Alaska had several close encounters with polar bears in the mid-90s.

WSU researchers tracked 12 grizzlies on Alaska’s North Slope with cameras, capturing their survival, foraging, and encounters ...

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

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

China is paying Russia to join Arctic expeditions while also pushing for greater cooperation from Nordic states.

A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the sea ice melts rapidly.

Yet the mood among China’s Arctic researchers was subdued as they gathered in early February for two conferences in Tromso in ...

Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds by bulking up instead of wasting away, a study said Thursday.