Polar bears can struggle to adapt to climate change. Bears on Svalbard may be surviving on land prey and seals — but ...

Learn how polar bears in the Arctic’s Barents Sea are maintaining healthy fat reserves despite sea ice loss in a warming ...

Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds ...

Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. Researchers took more than 1,000 body measurements ...

Polar bears of the Svalbard archipelago have surprised scientists by growing fatter, despite shrinking sea ice, with one ...

Scientists think that Svalbard bears have adapted to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey.

Seals favored by Svalbard bears are becoming easier to hunt as ice declines, a study found. But researchers say the situation ...

Instead of growing leaner like polar bears in other parts of the Arctic, those in Svalbard have gained body fat. Read more at ...