It was 1992 in the remote village of Point Lay, Alaska. The Inupiat community numbered less than 100 people back then. Located on the edge of the Chukchi Sea, 230 miles north of the Arctic Circle, ...

Polar bears, a mascot for the impacts of climate change, are threatened by melting sea ice. These iconic Arctic predators ...

Decades of melting sea ice and increasingly ice-free days in the region have not had the expected health impacts on this ...

“Svalbard (and the Barents Sea area) has experienced a much faster loss of sea ice than other areas having polar bears,” Aars ...

Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors found, the body condition of both male and female polar bears—i.e., how ...

The haunting polar bear photo is one of 24 finalists for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award ...

Polar bears near Svalbard are gaining fat despite sea ice loss, revealing how some Arctic wildlife is adapting to warming.

It’s hard to look at a polar bear and not feel a mix of awe and alarm. They’re massive and built for survival on Arctic ice. While polar bear encounters are rare for most people, they do happen. And ...

Though Vitamin A is healthy is reasonable doses, it becomes a deadly toxin in high quantities. In the frozen wilderness of the Arctic, human survival historically depended on using every available ...

The BBC reported terrible news last week about polar bears: they are thriving. This is very annoying of them as it goes ...

Decades of data taken from polar bears in the Barents Sea area show their body conditions are stable, despite how climate change has made their hunting grounds less icy.

The fuzzy white predators of Svalbard, Norway, have been getting fatter over the past two decades, possibly by changing their diets and hunting strategies, a new study suggests ...