Less than two weeks after a court order halted the program, officials petitioned the state Board of Game for an emergency authorization Friday to continue killing bears and wolves in Western Alaska.

In addition, polar bears are listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to the "current and predicted future declines" of sea ice, according to the Alaska Department of ...

A female polar bear swam 687 km across the freezing Beaufort Sea over nine days, a feat first reported in 2011. The video ...

Remote cameras were deployed in the Arctic mountains across nearly a decade; Valuable footage of moms and cubs emerging from dens shines light on elusive polar bear reproduction. Researchers from ...

The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) is an ecologically important region for grizzly and polar bears, caribou (reindeer) and hundreds of thousands of ...

During their "hibernation," bears do not eat or drink as often, and they will rarely (if at all) defecate or urinate, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Since polar bears do not ...

In some seasons, it has warmed three times faster than the rest of the globe, said University of Alaska at Fairbanks scientist John Walsh. In the summertime, polar bears go out on the ice to ...

Credit: Kt Miller / Polar Bears International Polar bear den in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska (2009). The maternal den research began in Alaska, although this report focuses on its Svalbard findings.

A woman and her 1-year-old son were recently mauled to death by a polar bear in an ultra-rare attack in Alaska. A new report ... certain sea stars rival polar bears as the most prolific predators ...