The documentary Nuisance Bear presents a nuanced problem plaguing the Polar Bear Capital of the World without pointing ...
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 ...
While many Canadians may not be particularly fond of winter, the season is critical for numerous reasons, especially for the ...
For years, images of thin polar bears stranded on shrinking ice floes shaped how many people understood climate change in the ...
Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. These giant bears hunt, mate and spend their days hanging out on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing as the climate ...
A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the ...
The fuzzy white predators of Svalbard, Norway, have been getting fatter over the past two decades, possibly by changing their diets and hunting strategies, a new study suggests ...
There's love in the polar bear enclosure. A Madison zoo has introduced two bears as part of the Polar Bear Population Alliance.
For decades, polar bear populations have been declining because of global warming. But recent research found that one subpopulation of polar bears is thriving ...
There's a confounding dilemma for many folks trying to make sense of winter weather in the context of climate change.
Well, well, well. How inconvenient. Exactly 20 years after climate change was catapulted to the top of the political agenda, the poster creature of the crisis – the polar bear – appears to be doing ...
In 2014, Donald Trump tweeted: "Just out—the POLAR ICE CAPS are at an all time high, the POLAR BEAR population has never been stronger." That claim was disputed by climate specialists, and indeed the ...