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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Polar bears live on the sea ice where their favorite snacks (seals) live. You can find polar bears on land if there is no nearby sea ice, or swimming between floating ice islands during warmer ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

The United States has listed the polar bear as a threatened species, because its Arctic sea ice habitat is melting due to climate change. US government scientists predict that two-thirds of the ...

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 ...

Martin Gregus’s compositions and the wide range of techniques he used impressed the judges. In 2020 the sea ice formed earlier than usual and did not fully disappear until late July. Martin watched ...