A video shared on social media in mid-November 2024 purportedly showed a boat crew rescuing a polar bear cub. The footage ...

While surveying the health of two polar bear populations, researchers found lacerations, hair loss, ice buildup and skin ulcerations primarily affecting the feet of adult bears as well as other ...

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

The study, which observed two distinct polar bear populations over a decade, found that melting and refreezing snow, accelerated by warming trends, has led to unusually severe paw injuries in some of ...

When you have people disembarking from the vehicle you should have a bear monitor,” Van Nest, a conservation officer for the province of Manitoba, cautions as the tourists gaze at a polar bear ...

In some parts of the high Arctic, polar bears are sustaining ice-related paw injuries due to a warming ... Laidre and colleagues were studying two polar bear populations living above 70 degrees ...

According to Laidre, the solution to tackling these injuries and further knock-on effects to polar bear populations is simple: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and limiting climate warming.

Sgt. Ian Van Nest is a conservation officer who keeps interactions between polar bears and humans minimal. It’s been over a decade since the last polar bear attack in Churchill, a remote Canadian town ...

While surveying the health of two polar bear populations, researchers found lacerations, hair loss, ice buildup and skin ulcerations primarily affecting the feet of adult bears as well as other parts ...