LONDON — A rare polar bear that was spotted outside a cottage in a remote village in Iceland was shot by police after being ...

It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg.Police sharpshooters killed a polar bear that had come ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species — a mighty hunter and fierce defender of its young that's among the world's most vulnerable animals. Two-thirds of ...

While you may not notice it unless you are looking at a polar bear and Kodiak bear side by side, there are some key ...

CHURCHILL, Manitoba (AP) — When polar bears started coming to Churchill, tourists did too. And then suddenly, polar bears ...

Polar bear safaris serve up a rare opportunity to meet Arctic man-eaters under the northern lights. Colby J Brokvist Polar bears are the only mammal known to actively hunt humans. Still ...

The polar bear's global population is 25-29 thousand animals, and every third polar bear lives in the Russian Arctic MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. The Polar Bear Patrol educational campaign to ...

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 ...

Russia's natural resources watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, initiates "polar bear patrols" to prevent encounters between people and polar bears, listed in the Red Data Book. Such a patrol may be ...

The polar bear is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding landmasses. A boar (adult male ...