Researchers analyzed blood samples from polar bears located in northeastern and southeastern Greenland. The results showed that “some genes linked to heat-stress, aging and metabolism” were “behaving ...

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their ...

It's no secret that polar bears in the Arctic are suffering as a result of changing conditions due to climate change, but a new study has discovered they are hurting in more ways than previously ...

Climate change in Earth's polar regions is emerging as an underrecognized driver of global health risks, with consequences reaching far beyond the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers argue. Subscribe to ...

FILE - This March 25, 2009, file photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a polar bear in the Beaufort Sea region of Alaska. On Dec. 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered ...

Polar bears rely on sea ice for hunting, and the rapid disappearance of ice as a result of climate change threatens their ...

Ever since TIME Magazine’s Special Report on climate change in 2006 reinforced the emblematic nature of the polar bear with a striking cover image of a lone animal on sea ice, the world’s been ...

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures more than two-thirds of polar bears are expected to be ...

Polar bears in Canada's Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey of the land carnivore has found. Females and bear cubs ...

Climate change may have been a factor in a recent fatal polar bear attack in Alaska. Summer Myomick, 24, was walking through a snowstorm on Tuesday with her 1-year-old son, Clyde Ongtowasruk, in the ...

As climate change diminishes sea ice from coastal communities in the Arctic and the subarctic, researchers expect polar bears to range farther into the towns and camps in that remote part of the world ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For polar bears, the climate change diet is ...