Key studies and observations documenting climate change impacts to polar bears are summarized below. Polar bear populations are declining: The Polar Bear Specialist Group of the IUCN determined that 8 ...

PBI monitors polar bears across the Arctic partly to determine the impacts of climate change on the behavior and physical condition of the animals as well as population trends. One program has ...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in a virtual assembly warns of the effects of climate change on the economy, particularly on ...

How is climate change affecting polar regions? Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the ...

Young polar bears are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Monitoring data reveals that adult female ...

Documenting its effects on wildlife hasn’t been ... I can’t say that this bear was starving because of climate change, but I do know that polar bears rely on a platform of sea ice from which ...

It might be loading or has been removed. And we already know that polar bears are suffering direct effects of that disappearing ice and other changes to the climate in the arctic. The truth is ...

Thanks to increased accessibility to water and energy, the Thar Desert is now the most populated desert on Earth.

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 ...

Nunavut, Canada – where thousands of polar bears live – is projected to grow nearly 40 per cent by 2043. Small bees better at coping with global warming, bumblebees struggle, study reveals ...

Having abandoned the island in 1992, the human population of this extremely remote island was soon replaced by a pack of ...

Ursus maritimus, a species of polar bear in the South Beaufort Sea, has recently been of particular interest to marine ...