Polar bears are vulnerable. This is not because they are hunted, but because of the threat of climate change caused by our activities across the world. The primary threat ... WWF also works to protect ...

However, Joey’s troubles were far from over. In 2022, he was once again mistaken for a polar bear by another group of conservationists. This time, he was found wandering near a small town in Alaska ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the ... image out into the world.

The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species — a mighty hunter and fierce defender of its young that's among the world's most vulnerable animals. Two-thirds of ...

After a long winter in their den, a polar bear mother and her cubs emerge at the first signs of spring. It's a magical moment when the youngins experience the world for the first time--and ...

Dr. Doug Clark (Ph.D.) has crawled into many polar bear dens as a graduate student and in a former job as a park warden.

Last month, the eastern half of Hudson Bay, home to the world’s most-studied polar ... how much ice is needed to support an adult male polar bear, the study relied on field research to determine ...

This chapter comprises the following sections: names, taxonomy, subspecies and distribution, descriptive notes, habitat, movements and home range, activity patterns, feeding ecology, reproduction and ...

The remains of a carnivorous, tyrannosaurid dinosaur were found in Alaska — named Nanuqsaurus, or “polar bear lizard”, after the cold, snowy upper latitudes of its natural habitat.

David Kuptana of Victoria Island happened to come across one of these mysterious bears and while it looked like a polar bear, the behaviors ... ninth-largest in the world, it has a population ...

Polar bears' primary prey, the ringed seal, are also at risk. A segment of the polar bear population is at risk of extinction should ice-free periods continue to get longer, researchers have ...

Her interactions with the natural world were as entertaining as they ... Image by Florian Ledoux. A polar bear has a moment in the Arctic winter sun. We returned to the pods feeling exhausted ...