The changing climate poses a major threat to polar bear survival. But new research suggests that rising temperatures may be ...

Researchers analyzed blood samples from polar bears located in northeastern and southeastern Greenland. The results showed ...

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 ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A “civil war” is brewing in polar science. As climate change rapidly melts Earth’s ice, sides are being drawn ...

“They (polar bears) have indeed lost a lot of their past genetic diversity, and because of this, they are very likely more sensitive to climate-change threats today.” An analysis of newly sequenced ...

Seeing any living thing suffer is one of the hardest things to watch. Feeling empathy for an animal in pain is intrinsically human, especially when there’s nothing we can do to help. Several images ...