For years, people living in Canada’s north have reported an increasing number of polar bears on shore, venturing into communities and encountering humans. Researchers theorized the bears were starving ...

Polar bears depend on frozen ocean surfaces more than any other land predator. The ice functions as a platform where they hunt seals, their primary source of energy. Bears often wait beside breathing ...

In the frozen wilderness of the Arctic, human survival historically depended on using every available food source. But one part of the polar bear hides a dangerous secret that has proven deadly to ...

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. As the Arctic climate warms, some polar bears ...

For polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition, a new study suggests. With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during ...

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 ...