A photo of a polar bear with a piece of plastic in its mouth is up for an Ocean Photographer of the Year award, further underlining an unignorable pollution problem. As Live Science reported ...

A Wild Encounter in The Arctic Goes Viral, As Polar Bear Chases Man. A jaw-dropping clip shared by AccuWeather has gone viral after capturing a man in Pyramiden, Svalbard escaping a charging polar ...

More than polar bears are threatened in this changing gateway to the Arctic, where warmer waters melt sea ice earlier in the year and the open ocean lingers longer.

Hidden Planet Arctic animals are battling more diseases in recent decades. Here’s why. Stories have surfaced of animals such as polar bears fighting off new diseases, and sometimes losing that ...

A polar bear trudges across the Arctic Ocean, block by block, in this Oct. 2 video. (Benjamin Hardman via YouTube) ...

Polar bears are the ultimate survivors of the Arctic, thriving in temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius and frequently diving into the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean.

Some polar bears living in the far north are turning up with ice-related injuries that, in some cases, seriously affect their mobility and may be connected to the warming Arctic. Researchers ...

Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja visited the main settlement on the strategically located Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Monday, at a time of increased interest in the resource-rich polar ...

Image of polar bear with plastic hanging from its mouth shortlisted for Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024 award. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

A recent study is shedding light on the ongoing accumulation of mercury pollution in the Arctic — despite the international ...

The Arctic is warming four times faster than any other place on the planet. As sea ice melts, new shipping routes between continents are opening up, and the yearly window for navigating through ...

More than polar bears are threatened in this changing gateway to the Arctic, where warmer waters melt sea ice earlier in the year and the open ocean lingers longer. For what grows, lives and ...