This article is from Hakai Magazine, a new online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. The air is calm this Arctic morning as ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – An undercover agent in Amherst helped the U.S. attorney convict a Canadian woman of trafficking protected wildlife. U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross on Thursday announced Vanessa ...

A rare polar bear that was spotted outside a cottage in a remote village in Iceland was shot by police after being considered a threat, authorities said Friday. The bear was killed Thursday afternoon ...

Three environmental organisations in the US have filed a suit that challenges US Fish and Wildlife Service regulations that allow oil and gas activities in the Beaufort Sea and adjacent coastal plains ...

The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo said that a necropsy report found that the bear drowned after sustaining a “crushing injury” to his trachea Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...

Polar bears in Canada's Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey of the land carnivore has found. Females and bear cubs ...

The group has adapted to hunting on glacial ice, which suggests some members of the species might survive as the Arctic heats up. An isolated population of polar bears has been discovered in southeast ...

Scientists collected video from 20 bears during ice-free months to understand whether the animals can survive longer periods on land in a warming world. By Delger Erdenesanaa Climate change is ...