Between snowy winters and holiday songs, many animals come to mind during Christmas. There are polar bears wearing Santa hats ...

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Polar bears are one of the world’s most beautiful and fascinating creatures, and tragically, due to global warming and climate change, their population has been dwindling.

Arctic explorer and adventurer Mark Wood joins WIRED to answer the internet's ice cold questions about polar expeditions. How ...

The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species — a mighty hunter and fierce defender of its young that's among the world's most vulnerable animals. Two-thirds of ...

A polar bear and a cub search for scraps in a large pile of bowhead whale bones (AP) Scientists have warned that interactions with wild animals could become more common as the Arctic is warming ...

(Erinn-Hermsen) An upcoming documentary series on polar bears in the eastern Arctic is as much about the enigmatic creatures as it is about the people who live alongside them — and their ...

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adding that climate change means the animals might be "coming into contact with communities and people more than they used to" due to sea ice patterns changing. "If you're attacked by a polar bear ...

This lack of sunlight, combined with frozen soils and reduced vegetation, make it difficult for animals to survive in polar environments, but some - like the polar bear - have evolved to cope.

They also needed to gather seaweed samples from the shore in areas frequented by bears to feed habitat-housed bears — named Inukshuk, Ganuk, Henry and Eddy — at the Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat. The ...