and starvation. The connection between an individual animal’s death and climate change is rarely clear—even when an animal is as emaciated as this polar bear. Photographer Paul Nicklen and I ...

Some polar bears face starvation as the Arctic sea ice melts ... increasing the risk of death. 'Polar-bear capital' warms too fast for the bears Migrating species crucial to planet under threat ...

and they're at greater risk of starvation in the future," Pagano said. While most of the modeling so far indicates that many ...

Recent cases of polar bear starvation and stranding at sea have already been documented and are likely to become more common as Arctic temperatures continue to rise rapidly. When the bear was finally ...

Scientists have discovered the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur -- something that allows one of the planet's most iconic animals to survive and thrive in one of its most punishing climates. That ...

Polar bear populations are declining ... coast is being threatened by increasing coastal erosion due to climate change (Durner et al. 2006). Starvation and fasting: Three (and likely four) polar bears ...

MORE: Prolonged ice-free periods putting Hudson Bay polar bear population at risk of extinction: Study The melting of the sea ice has shortened the polar bears' feeding season, which has resulted ...

Researchers have directly linked population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay to shrinking sea ice caused by climate change.

Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay, the most studied group of polar bears in the world. The melting ...