Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

Imagine a world where the polar bear, stranded on a shrinking ice floe, could stand before a court and demand justice for its threatened existence. It sounds almost surreal, even whimsical — yet the ...

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...

Over the past few decades, the polar bear population in Canada’s western Hudson Bay has dropped dramatically. Archer: “There’s about half as many polar bears there in recent years, compared to the ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in ... The rapid loss of sea ice due to climate change is "driving hungry bears to land and putting both at risk". From our morning news briefing to a weekly ...

YORK, Pa. — The York Polar Bears take the ice just like any other hockey team, but for those in the stands watching, it’s a moment some thought they may never see. Polar Bears Team Manager and ...

The Detroit Zoo welcomed Haley, a 22-year-old polar bear ... station and an ice cave. The space is also home to rescued southern sea otters Finn, Kit and Monte, who were found stranded off ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present.