WASHINGTON — Some polar bears and their cubs already in danger of extinction could be legally killed by private oil-drilling ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of ...

Seeing a polar bear in the wild is a rare, exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying experience. That is exactly what one woman ...

A new law that scraps key wildlife protections in Ontario, Canada, is causing outrage from conservationists, who said the changes could quietly push the province's polar bears closer to extinction, ...

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 ...

Health Canada has significantly reduced the number of days northerners should wait before eating the meat of polar bears that were recently tranquillized by researchers. Previously, Inuit and others ...