Erica Murray says she loves hearing spectators and competitors wonder why her skiers take up so much space on winners’ podiums. "It is fun when you come to these races and they say, ‘Polar Bear who?

Members of the Smith Mountain Lake Water Ski Club gathered for the 32nd annual Polar Bear Ski Day on Jan. 1 at the home of Tom and Ginger Tanner in Moneta. — Jeff Reid, The Franklin News-Post JEFF ...

With polar bears spending more and more time ashore in the Arctic because of melting sea ice from global warming, the chances of human-wildlife conflicts are growing. That brings in Polar Bears ...

Churchill, Canada — On a cold November morning in the subarctic Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba, Ian Van Nest sits in the warmth of his SUV and peers through binoculars at a pair of polar bears ...

An orphaned polar bear cub roaming Prudhoe Bay was captured and brought to the Alaska Zoo for its welfare. Photo from Alaska Zoo An orphaned polar bear was “removed from the wild” in Alaska, wildlife ...

Scientists are using new technology to prevent human-polar bear interactions. As scientists anticipate another unintended consequence of climate change that could pose a threat to both humans and ...

The photographer of a stunning image of a polar bear drifting off to sleep on a bed of ice won the Natural History Museum's 2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, drawing attention to the ...

Scientists say they have found a link between human-related greenhouse gas emissions and polar bear reproduction and survival rates for the first time in a new study, potentially overcoming a barrier ...

ARLINGTON, Va. - How does a kid from Bradenton, Florida end up on a sled hockey team in upstate New York? It's a fair and accurate answer to say quite by accident. U.S. Army Spc. Cameron Danforth, a ...

A polar bear chased several residents around a tiny, isolated Alaska Native whaling village, killing a mother and her 1-year-old son in an extremely rare attack before another community member shot ...

A man in Canada has been hospitalized after trying to save his wife from an attacking polar bear. The man, who lives with his wife and two dogs in Fort Severn First Nation in northern Ontario, ...