ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of ...

He was renowned for his skill at capturing candid scenes of penguins, polar bears and other cold-weather creatures — and for ...

Researchers have found that polar bears in western Hudson Bay consistently concentrate their activity within a single offshore zone that can serve as the foundation for a marine protected area. The ...

To protect the vulnerable biodiversity of the Arctic, researchers from the University of Alberta and San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDZWA) have identified a new conservation strategy in western ...

Nathan Gordon Jr. drove his truck on the spit right outside of Kaktovik in early March. He is the city mayor and leads the town's polar bear patrol program. Under his back seat, he had a shotgun, and ...

As climate change reshapes Arctic food webs, ringed seals will swim into risky polar bear territory if the menu is varied enough. That’s the central finding of a new study published in Ecology Letters ...

Polar bears depend on frozen ocean surfaces more than any other land predator. The ice functions as a platform where they hunt seals, their primary source of energy. Bears often wait beside breathing ...

Watching a polar bear roam across Arctic tundra sounds like an expedition reserved for wealthy travelers. In practice, a careful traveler can arrange the experience for a cost similar to a mid-range ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Lots of people came out to the BioPark in honor of International Polar Bear Day. The event raises awareness for polar bear conservation and coincides with the time period ...

For nearly two decades, luxury outerwear brand Canada Goose has been supporting Polar Bears International, the singular organization dedicated to conserving polar bears and the sea ice they depend on.

Polar bears thrive in solitary lifestyles. They travel across large expanses of snow and ice, hunt quietly, and only come together when mating or rearing young. As solitary hunters, polar bears are ...

The world’s polar bear population has been in decline for a while, due to climate change. But some bears at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison could be doing their part to reverse that trend — with a ...