This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. We see evidence of the kill first: a shockingly broad spread of scarlet, probably the blood of a ringed seal, on snow ...

Polar bears are one of the most majestic, yet fearsome animals on the planet. The largest living species of bear and the largest land carnivore, the polar bear is closely related to the brown bear. So ...

U of T Scarborough researchers have directly linked population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay to shrinking sea ice caused by climate change. The researchers developed a model that ...

Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present.

Polar bears live solely among the Arctic sea ice in Alaska, Canada ... weight and energy stores they built before entering their den. They will also give birth during their torpor, and their ...

Researchers from the University of Toronto have established a direct link between the population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay and shrinking sea ice caused by climate change. The ...

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 ...

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...

an estimated thousand or more bears swim to its shores, as they wait for the sea ice to return. And because of climate change, that wait is becoming longer and longer. To survive the bears are ...