Watching a polar bear roam across Arctic tundra sounds like an expedition reserved for wealthy travelers. In practice, a careful traveler can arrange the experience for a cost similar to a mid-range ...

I’d like to attribute my obsession with polar bears to a family tradition. My older cousins were given stuffed white Gund bears when they were born, and when I came out a decade later, the same polar ...

By Shanna Hanbury A polar bear, captured above, sits on a grassy expanse on Kolyuchin Island in the Chukotka district of ...

A remote arctic island in Alaska is the best place in the world to spot polar bears, but the village faces challenges for ...

Polar bears live in some of the coldest places on Earth, but did you know one country hosts around 16,000 of them? From vast ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...

Findings suggest that sea ice loss probably doesn't lead to more interactions with people just because polar bears are thinner or hungrier.

One of the most attractive critters at the zoo splashes through frigid waters: polar bears, the beauties of the Arctic Circle. Most humans will never see a polar bear in the wild. So, we have to rely ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we read an email from a listener who, as a kid, shared a fun fact with her classroom: polar bears have black skin. Her teacher not only told her she was wrong ...

Polar bears are intensely curious animals. That curiosity often brings them into contact with people and can put both species at risk from one another. Between 2011 and 2021, research colleagues and I ...