The ice is melting because of global warming. When humans burn fossil fuels like oil and coal, a bunch of greenhouse gases go ...

Polar bears are one of the most majestic, yet fearsome animals on the planet. The largest living species of bear and the ...

Wild polar bears, which usually eat high-fat seals, are missing out on their marine mammal-based diet because of the human-caused rising global temperature and resulting lack of Arctic Sea ice ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. We see evidence of the kill first: a shockingly broad spread of scarlet, probably the blood of a ringed seal, on snow ...

Climate change, often characterized by rising temperatures, shifting weather patterns, and altered ocean currents, is one of ...

Anthony Pagano/USGS The team tracked nine solitary female polar bears over 8-12 days Moreover, climate change appears to be having dramatic effects on the Arctic sea-ice, forcing polar bears to ...

Rapid sea ice loss and ocean acidification from climate ... and carbohydrates – for creatures ranging from krill to fish, polar bears and whales. However, the nutritional value of these algae ...

Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present.

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

"So freeze-up happens here first. "For polar bears, sea ice is a big dinner plate - it's access to their main prey, seals. They're probably excited for a big meal of seal blubber - they haven't ...

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...