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

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

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 ...

In a rare encounter, a polar bear was spotted near a remote cottage in Iceland-a sighting that quickly turned dangerous.

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. When you ...

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 ...

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

The two polar bears were first spotted walking off the beach at Webster Avenue, probably exhausted from their long swim from ...

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.

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 ...

Pants made of polar bear fur identify Naimanngitsoq Kristiansen, an Inuit man from Qaanaaq in northwestern Greenland, as a seasoned hunter. With sea ice thinning every year, his dogsled journeys ...

In the Kane Basin population, located between Canada and Greenland, 31 of 61 polar bears showed evidence of icing-related injuries, such as hairless patches, cuts or scarring. In the second ...