Sometimes the internet delivers exactly what you need: a moment of pure joy that also reminds you there’s something bigger going on in the world. That’s precisely what happened when the Oregon Zoo ...

In a warming world, the polar bear has become the unofficial mascot of ecological collapse. We’ve all seen the photos of these majestic predators reduced to skin and bone, clinging to ever-shrinking ...

Polar bears in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas are spending dramatically more time on land than at any point in the modern tracking record, with up to 50% of some populations now summering onshore ...

Scientists expected the opposite, but polar bears in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have become fatter and healthier since the early 1990s, all while sea ice has steadily declined due to ...

A polar bear rolling in a tub of ice water captivated millions on TikTok, but the Oregon Zoo animal at the center of the footage is part of a broader scientific effort to prevent the species’ ...

A male polar bear walks on the sea ice near glaciers in eastern Spitzbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, on April 9, 2025. Despite the decline of sea ice over the past several decades due to climate ...

As the sea ice melts due to climate change, the trend of polar bears getting thinner and having fewer cubs has been well documented in areas such as Baffin Bay, a stretch of ocean between Greenland ...

Rising temperatures and rapidly melting sea ice threaten polar bears across the Arctic. But the bears living 800 miles north of the Arctic Circle have stayed surprisingly fat, researchers report ...

Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of the continent, far above the Arctic Circle, to feast on whale carcasses left behind by hunters and to ...