These amazing images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show the Arctic animals at their fierce but adorable best ...

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 ...

Churchill is a remote Canadian town that not only lives with polar bears next door, but loves them. That's because the ...

Two young female polar bears, Inuk and Imaq, will be moving from Aalborg to Tallinn in the coming months after an exchange ...

The Explore website operates all the live cameras for Polar Bears International. But it's not just about polar bears. While ...

Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to wet snow that gets stuck to the pads and freezes into blocks.

Researchers observing polar bears in two different populations in northern Canada and Greenland found that some of the bears were experiencing hair loss, gashes and ice buildup on their paws that, in ...

Polar bears face mounting challenges in a changing, warming world, mostly related to their waning wintery wonderland habitats. But they may be increasingly infected with germs and parasites ...

Even though the Chukchi Sea polar bear population has fared better than others in the rapidly warming Arctic environment, the ...