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 ...

This assessment is one in a series resulting from a WWF study that assesses the vulnerability of numerous species to the effects of climate change. This assessment of polar bears is one in a series ...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in a virtual assembly warns of the effects of climate change on the economy, particularly on mortgages in areas prone to natural disasters.

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

OK, maybe polar bears aren’t going extinct, but we might starve! That’s Myth 3. MSNBC shrieks, “Climate change could create a massive global food shortage.” President Barack Obama said ...

Over the past few decades, the polar bear population in Canada’s western Hudson Bay has dropped dramatically. Archer: “There’s about half as many polar bears there in recent years, compared to the ...

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay. The clock is set to 89 seconds to "midnight" as scientists and ...

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

What we can do, right now, is to take actions that will help polar bear populations. The most important threat is climate change. The Arctic is feeling the effects of that change first and worst. The ...

Since WCCO first visited Churchill in 1993, the polar bear population here has been cut in half, according to estimates ...