During summer, visitors can possibly spot polar bears along the local shores before they return to the pack ice when it forms in early winter. Summertime is also when the bears share the area with ...

A male polar bear eats a piece of whale meat Aug. 23, 2010, as it walks along the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba. With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have ...

ON HUDSON BAY — Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low fat, low ice diet because of climate ...

BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction.

Genetically, polar bears and grizzly bears aren’t all that different. Scientists believe that polar bears split from grizzly bears between 250,000 and 130,000 years ago. The two species are actually ...

A sperm whale lies on its side amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, its mouth hanging open in a silent scream. The lateral image on a flat plain resembles a textbook’s illustration of ...