Churchill is a remote Canadian town that not only lives with polar bears next door, but loves them. That's because the ...

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far ...

Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to wet snow that gets stuck to the pads and freezes into blocks. When you ...

Sgt. Ian Van Nest is a conservation officer who keeps interactions between polar bears and humans minimal. It's been over a decade since the last polar bear attack in Churchill, a remote Canadian town ...

Stories have surfaced of animals such as polar bears fighting off new diseases, and sometimes losing that fight.

These amazing images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show the Arctic animals at their fierce but adorable best ...

The study indicates the injuries appear to be an 'unexpected consequence of climate change' as conditions continue to change ...

Polar bears face mounting challenges in a changing ... If a sample has antibodies aimed at fighting a specific pathogen, it suggests the bear’s immune system has encountered the pathogen ...

After testing the materials for antibodies, or blood proteins generated by the immune system to fight foreign substances, the ...

There are about 600 polar bears in this Western Hudson Bay ... who along with a 72-year-old man who tried to fight off the bear with a shovel survived their injuries. Greene, who had come to ...