If an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above Manhattan, its centre would reach a temperature of approximately 100 ...

As the Arctic region is transformed by climate change, Russia's presence in Svalbard starts to look like a stroke of ...

Kali, now 13, was rescued as a cub in 2013 after residents of the Native Village of Point Lay, Alaska, discovered he’d been orphaned.

A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the sea ice melts rapidly.

In a warming world, the polar bear has become the unofficial mascot of ecological collapse. We’ve all seen the photos of ...

Despite the decline of sea ice over the past several decades due to climate change, scientists found that some polar bears ...

Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. Researchers took more than 1,000 body measurements ...

Seals favored by Svalbard bears are becoming easier to hunt as ice declines, a study found. But researchers say the situation may be temporary.

The finding offers a small window of hope for a polar bear population vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Shrinking sea ice has made life harder for polar bears in many parts of the Arctic, but the population in Svalbard seems to ...

Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively few people now mostly govern themselves.