Well, well, well. How inconvenient. Exactly 20 years after climate change was catapulted to the top of the political agenda, ...

One of the most attractive critters at the zoo splashes through frigid waters: polar bears, the beauties of the Arctic Circle ...

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

Polar bears are large carnivores that can treat humans as potential prey, especially when hunger rises and sea ice limits access to seals. In Arctic communities, records include stalking and repeated ...

On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...

In a warming world, the polar bear has become the unofficial mascot of ecological collapse. We’ve all seen the photos of ...

Arctic sea ice is vanishing faster than ever, and scientists expected polar bears in Svalbard would grow thinner. But a surprising new study reveals they are gaining body fat, defying predictions ...

Svalbard’s chubby bears upend catastrophe talk—echoing Trump’s swagger and Gates’s pivot to adaptation.

Adult polar bears around Norway's Svalbard archipelago have become fatter on average over the past two decades even as Arctic sea ice has shrunk, according to a new study.

Scientists studying polar bears in Norway’s Svalbard region found them fat and healthy despite rapid Arctic ice loss, ...

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

The Barents Sea has lost its ice faster than other areas with polar bears as temperatures have risen there more than in other ...