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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...