Not too long ago I was the guide on a wildlife-photography trip to Svalbard ... Under the midnight sun, beside a hole in the Arctic ice, a polar bear found something new—Audun Rikardsen ...

SeaLegacy, the organization we founded in 2014, uses photography ... but I do know that polar bears rely on a platform of sea ice from which to hunt. A fast-warming Arctic means that sea ice ...

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 ...

One study about polar bear diets revealed that 28% of their stomach contents contained plastic. Even in the remote Arctic where Kujala's photo was taken, plastic is everywhere and becoming ...

The photography was carried out in early ... to the development of the Northern Sea Route. Four polar bear populations live in the Arctic - the Chukchi-Alaska, Kara, Laptev and Barents.

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 ...