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 ...

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 ...

A stunningly tender moment between a polar bear mama and her cub was recently captured on film in Manitoba, and it’s making ...

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 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 ...

From late fall until spring, mothers with new cubs den in snowdrifts on ... In recent years the sea ice has retreated so far offshore that the bears have been forced to drift on the ice into ...

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 ...

Additionally, the bears’ sebum did not contain squalene, a fatty oil found in the hair of humans, sea otters and many aquatic mammals, suggesting this lack could help with ice resistance ...

and Polar Bears International set out to understand the mechanism linking sea ice loss with polar bear survival. Log In or Sign Up ...

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 ...