Researchers observing polar bears in two different populations in northern Canada and Greenland found that some of the bears ...

Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to wet snow that gets stuck to the pads and freezes into blocks.

These amazing images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show the Arctic animals at their fierce but adorable best ...

Polar bears are struggling to walk because climate change is causing ice blocks to form around their feet. Researchers at the ...

Hammeken is a legend in Greenland, its greatest polar bear hunter. AFP followed him and other professional Inuit hunters for several days during the hunting season. He killed seven this year to ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far north populations.

In East Greenland, more and more polar bears are being killed in self-defense as the loss of their sea ice habitat pushes towards communities, where the predators pose a real threat to humans. In ...

A new paper suggests that climate change is leading to previously unseen injuries in polar bears in some of the coldest parts ...

polar bears and ice floes -- which have shaped the image of these places -- no longer exist." Locals are aware of the need to ...

Three adult polar bears travel across sea ice in eastern Greenland. Environments in the Far North that would have stayed well below freezing now experience freeze-thaw cycles and wet snow due to a ...

Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore, but attacks on humans are extremely uncommon – only 73 were recorded between 1870 and 2014, in Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and the US.

There are about 26,000 polar bears left in the world, with the majority in Canada. Populations are also found in the US, ...