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

Polar bears are now adding new foods to their diet, including reindeer, walruses and bird eggs ...

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

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

After decades monitoring polar bears in Norway's far north, researchers say the animals have proven incredibly adaptable, but ...

Shrinking sea ice has made life harder for polar bears in many parts of the Arctic, but the population in Svalbard seems to ...

The bears began feeding on alternative food sources, researchers found.

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

The body conditions of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) populations around the Norwegian island of Svalbard have improved despite ...

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

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