Svalbard has warmed between 5.4 and 9 degrees Fahrenheit in the past half century, thinning out the ice that is crucial to polar bear survival, according to a report commissioned by the Norwegian ...

The polar bears at the Buffalo Zoo are kept comfortable in the hottest months of the year with climate controlled habitats and always-cool swimming pools.

Polar bears spend so much time in the water that many scientists consider them to be marine mammals. In some cases, they’ve been recorded swimming for more than a week straight and clocking over ...

Meet the photographer detailing the decline of polar bears in Manitoba, Canada 04:03. In 1993, Don Shelby and a crew from WCCO embarked on a journey to Churchill, Manitoba in Canada.

View this post on Instagram. ... “In the wild, this would be in a snow bank or side of a hill. ... Male polar bears can weigh between 800 and 1,300 pounds, ...

Early in Candace Fleming’s POLAR BEAR (Neal Porter/Holiday House, 32 pp., $18.99, ages 4 to 8), we see the tip of the mother polar bear’s black nose poking out from the den near Canada’s ...

Alaska Zoo polar bear Cranbeary, left, approaches Kova in their habitat at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage on May 28. (Marc Lester / ADN) It looks to visitors like the two polar bears are longtime ...

ST. LOUIS — You can now say "hello" to polar bears Kallu and Kallik at the Saint Louis Zoo! After a weeks-long quarantine and acclimation period, the twin brothers made their public debut on ...

The way the town patrols and pushes out bears even has a similar feel, but one change is unmistakable. Since Shelby's visit, the polar bear population here has been cut in half, according to ...