Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds ...

Another blast of Arctic air was set to spread across much of the United States from Thursday night, even as local authorities ...

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

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

In parts of the Arctic, polar bears are in decline as sea ice, which they depend on to hunt, disappears. That is not the case ...

Brookfield Zoo, which has cared for generations of polar bears, hopes to offer guidelines for an area where mothers den at ...

Instead of growing leaner like polar bears in other parts of the Arctic, those in Svalbard have gained body fat. Read more at ...

After decades monitoring polar bears in Norway's far north, researchers say the animals have proven incredibly adaptable, but ...

Seals favored by Svalbard bears are becoming easier to hunt as ice declines, a study found. But researchers say the situation ...

Polar bears can struggle to adapt to climate change. Bears on Svalbard may be surviving on land prey and seals — but ...

The body conditions of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) populations around the Norwegian island of Svalbard have improved despite ...