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

Scientists have long hypothesized what would happen to polar bear populations in the Arctic as sea ice continues to melt at ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In dense fog, sea ice scientists pass in front of the Lance, dragging instruments for measuring ice thickness. Fog adds danger to the work: It’s harder to spot approaching polar bears.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...