This spring, when I set out to report on the vanishing world of Inuit polar-bear hunters for The New Yorker’s Far-Flung ...

This week is your last chance to visit Nora — the Oregon Zoo’s once-lonely, now beloved polar bear — before she leaves the ...

As race officials went out last Friday to mark the course for the annual Polar Bear Marathon in Churchill, Man., they were ...

Polar bears, beyond their predatory role, are vital providers of carrion for Arctic scavengers like foxes and gulls. These ...

Sakari, a polar bear at the Buffalo Zoo, celebrated his 13th birthday on November 23 with some treats keepers concocted just for him.Footage from the New York-based zoo shows the bear enjoying “a ...

Nora is moving to Wisconsin's Henry Vilas Zoo in December. The last day to see her is Sunday, Dec. 30. According to a press ...

Oregon Zoo's Nora the polar bear's last day is Nov. 30 before she moves to Wisconsin.

In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.

Christopher Best, a 34-year-old man, was fatally attacked by polar bears while working at a remote radar site in Canada in ...

The photographer Vadim Makhorov, while recently cruising on the Chukchi Sea, noticed a group of polar bears that were taking ...

While polar bears are a big tourist draw, the Arctic has a wealth of wildlife to observe and terrains to explore ...