Polar bears are now adding new foods to their diet, including reindeer, walruses and bird eggs ...

These polar bears appear to be maintaining their physical health despite the loss of sea ice—their preferred hunting grounds ...

Polar bears near Svalbard are gaining fat despite sea ice loss, revealing how some Arctic wildlife is adapting to warming.

“Svalbard (and the Barents Sea area) has experienced a much faster loss of sea ice than other areas having polar bears,” Aars ...

After decades monitoring polar bears in Norway's far north, researchers say the animals have proven incredibly adaptable, but ...

Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors found, the body condition of both male and female polar bears—i.e., how ...

Polar bears of the Svalbard archipelago have surprised scientists by growing fatter, despite shrinking sea ice, with one ...

The bears began feeding on alternative food sources, researchers found.

The Oregon zoo has welcomed a new resident, Kallik, a 3-year-old polar bear, who is settling into his new home.

In the frozen wilderness of the Arctic, human survival historically depended on using every available food source. But one ...

Polar bears, a mascot for the impacts of climate change, are threatened by melting sea ice. These iconic Arctic predators ...