Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...

Credit: Toronto Zoo/Cover Images With North America marking Groundhog Day on Sunday (2February) Toronto Zoo’s polar bears had ...

New research finds that grease that coats polar bear fur contains a specialized mixture of chemicals that make it resistant ...

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

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic traditionally use polar bear fur for its ice-resistant properties, but the science behind ...

Comparing fur samples collected from animals in Svalbard, Norway, an international team of researchers first identified that ...

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

A fat polar bear is a bear more likely to thrive in its extreme Arctic environment. So, when scientists discovered polar bear ...

Polar bear recovering from immobilization ... the spring and freezing later in the winter -- confining polar bears to land for longer periods, Molnar said. "They're really tightly linked to ...

During this period, the region’s polar bear population has declined by nearly 50 per cent. The monitoring data shows the ...

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