chief climate scientist for Polar Bears International and assistant professor at Cornell University, who explains that it's melting the sea ice that bears depend on. "It's important, because it's ...

Just on the edge of the western Hudson Bay lies the small town of Churchill, Manitoba. Here, the sea meets the boreal forest ...

The potential complete melting of the world’s ice sheets is a significant concern for scientists policymakers and citizens ...

University of Wyoming researchers John Whiteman and Merav Ben-David inspect a temperature logger implantation site on a polar bear on off-shore sea ice north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in April 2009.

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

International Polar Bear Day highlights conservation efforts to protect polar bears and their fragile Arctic habitat.

Frostpaw the polar bear with the melting ice bear. Artist Mark Coreth and his team from the Ice Bear Project carved this beautiful polar bear out of ice on December 5, 2009, in Copenhagen’s Nytorv ...

The rapid loss of sea ice due to climate change is "driving hungry bears to land and putting both ... with frozen seas melting into open water, shrinking hunting grounds. In the Nineties it ...

Time is Running Out for Polar Bears! Scientists warn that polar bear numbers could decline by 30% by 2050 due to melting sea ...

The rapid melting of glaciers is a serious global issue with far-reaching consequences. As glaciers and ice sheets melt, they ...

Although many of us have been avoiding the outdoors during this round of Arctic weather in the metro, the Zoo and Aquarium ...