Polar bears are among the most powerful predators in the world, and while encounters are rare, they can be deadly. These massive animals are curious, intelligent, and capable of moving much faster ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A new study that used technology tested at the Oregon Zoo says a rapidly warming Arctic is taking a toll on the polar bear population. Published in the science journal Nature ...

Polar bear numbers have increased in recent decades, but it’s not because climate change isn’t affecting them. Strict ...

Polar bears may be struggling to nourish their young as melting sea ice forces some populations to fast for longer periods, according to new research. The bears — long held up as icons of the climate ...

CINCINNATI (AP) -- An Ohio zoo has become the repository for the world's largest collection of polar bear poop as researchers work to create a pregnancy test to aid the survival of this endangered ...

Fifteen years after polar bears were listed as threatened, a new study says researchers have overcome a roadblock in the Endangered Species Act that prevented the federal government from considering ...

Learn why polar bears have white fur and other cool facts, plus WWF’s efforts to protect them and their Arctic habitat from ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - How do they do it? How do polar bears have such an incredibly high fat diet and get so fat - munching as they do on blubbery seals - without clogging their arteries and becoming ...

Polar Bears near Kaktovik on the Beaufort Sea coast. (Albert Marquez/Planet Earth Adventures) PARIS (AFP) — An international team of scientists said Thursday that polar bears faced local extinction in ...