Polar bears are getting horrific injuries on their feet – and it's all due to climate change, a new study warns. Scientists who studied the mammals in the Arctic over 10 years found ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far ...

This photo shows the rear paws of a polar bear temporarily sedated for research in East Greenland in 2022. The bear has large chunks of ice frozen onto its feet, which the researchers removed.

A polar bear's plight in an award-winning photo is a blunt reminder that emissions from burning fossil fuels are warming up ...

Caption The dots on the left map show the locations where samples from Greenland polar bears were collected. The new Southeast Greenland population, shown as red dots, is located between 60 and 64 ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear ... that our images of this dying bear moved the ...

In Churchill, Manitoba—where polar bears outnumber the 900 human residents—there's more to discover than just wildlife.