We know there’s trouble with polar bear habitat (the polar bear is also known as white bear, nanook, sea bear and ice bear). We also know some polar phenomena might cease to exist in our lifetime.

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

And one bear in particular — Betty White — has been stealing the ... also testing new tracking technologies. The Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat participated in a study last year testing minimally ...

A haze of ice crystals in the air created a halo around the low sun as three snowmobiles thundered onto the sea ice on a ...

Seals belong to a large clade of semi-aquatic animals called Pinnipeds. This clade also includes sea lions and walruses.

With one foot braced on the helicopter’s landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer dart at a polar bear ... as their sea-ice habitat shrank.

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquiliser ...

A black bear is running wild in Baltimore and Howard counties. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources began receiving ...

The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering research mission in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, where scientists, for the first time, took fat tissue biopsies from polar bears to study the ...