The hand-reared polar bear prepares to meet a potential mate at her new home.

Scientists have already reported polar bear deaths from bird flu in Alaska and Norway’s Svalbard islands. Now, blood samples from East Greenland offer a more hopeful development. Four bears carried ...

Explore.org and Polar Bears International run eight different livestreams from Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Known as the ...

New twin polar bears Kallik and Kalu were seen for the first time by the public on March 25, 2025 at the St. Louis Zoo, ...

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Summer in Canada's Hudson Bay can be a difficult time for the area's polar bears. Without sea ice, the bears are forced ...

A polar bear near Kaktovik, Alaska. New research reveals how polar bears keep ice off their fur. Alan Wilson via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Polar bears don’t have to worry about skipping a ...

Aquatic stalking is a hunting technique used by polar bears to catch seals. Unlike the traditional method of waiting by breathing holes in the ice, aquatic stalking involves the bear swimming ...

Polar bears are intensely curious animals. That curiosity often brings them into contact with people and can put both species at risk from one another. As the Arctic climate warms, some polar bears ...

Frontiers North and Polar Bears International (PBI) mark 25 years of polar bear conservation in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

The Saint Louis Zoo will welcome a new polar bear, a 5-year-old female named Laerke, to its grounds later this fall.

Blood samples from four polar bears in eastern Greenland showed antibodies associated with highly pathogenic bird flu, adding evidence that Arctic wildlife is encountering viruses carried through the ...