Polar bears near Svalbard are gaining fat despite sea ice loss, revealing how some Arctic wildlife is adapting to warming.

In a warming world, the polar bear has become the unofficial mascot of ecological collapse. We’ve all seen the photos of ...

Polar bears are healthier, with more fat reserves, than they were 25 years ago, despite a decrease in Arctic sea ice around Svalbard islands.

Learn how polar bears in the Arctic’s Barents Sea are maintaining healthy fat reserves despite sea ice loss in a warming ...

Regular folks who care about wildlife generally know that climate change is bad for polar bears, but they have only vague ...

The bears began feeding on alternative food sources, researchers found.

In early 1993, the Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson arrived at the most remote settlement in Greenland, a lonely town in the east that is tucked away in the world’s largest fjord system, which ...

In the high Arctic, where polar bears have long symbolized the dangers of a warming planet, new research from Norway is turning expectations on their head. Scientists tracking bears in the Svalbard ...