Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

says adapting to land like their grizzly bear relatives seems unlikey for polar bears. “Neither strategy will allow polar bears to exist on land beyond a certain amount of time,” Mr Robbins says.

In recognition of the high standard of entries, 25 extra images were selected by the Natural History Museum and put to the public vote. Justin’s whole body pained as he watched this starving polar ...

In 2011, a trip-wire designed to alert a group camping near Longyearbyen failed, and a polar bear "reported to be starving and emaciated" killed a 17-year-old British boy and injured four others.

This prolonged fasting drains polar bears’ energy reserves, reducing their ability to reproduce and raise cubs. Without ...

Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction ... a professor at the University of Toronto. A male bear, for example, in the West Hudson Bay population that is 20 per cent below its ...

A new study confirms that polar bear decline in Western Hudson Bay is directly linked to shrinking sea ice, which shortens ...