Looking at a polar bear, you'd probably assume its fur is white, but you'd be wrong, as it's really just an interesting trick the light plays.

Melting sea ice causes polar bears to lose their traditional hunting grounds. You'd be surprised at the lengths they go to ...

The ice shelf is at its thickest during the height of winter, which allows polar bears to travel up to 7.5 miles in a single day, depending on ice conditions.

An international team of scientists unlocked the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur, a discovery that could revolutionize ice-repellent technologies. The study, published as the cover story in ...

The total number of bears with some form of ice-related injury that Laidre and Atkinson identified between them was relatively small—32 in Kane Basin and 15 in Eastern Greenland. But that ...

Polar bears need all the help they can get to survive their frosty Arctic environment. One of their biggest survival secrets appears to be greasy hair. The sebum –or hair grease–on their fur ...

Polar bears in some parts of the high Arctic are developing ice buildup and related injuries to their feet, apparently due to changing sea ice conditions in a warming Arctic. While surveying the ...

Polar bears increasingly under threat as glaciers melt faster than ever Churchill, Canada — On the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists ...

A polar bear near Kaktovik, Alaska. New research reveals how polar bears keep ice off their fur. Alan Wilson via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Polar bears don’t have to worry about ...

The melting of Arctic sea ice in the Hudson Bay is significantly impacting polar bears' ability to hunt, sustain energy and ensure the survival of cubs -- leading to a 50% population decline since ...

Thirty-one of 61 bears in the Kane Basin population had laceration, skin ulceration, hair loss or ice buildup on their paws. Between 2012 and 2013, 73% of adult males in this population were ...