Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author's neighbor with a polar bear he shot from under his porch as it tried killing his dog. A gunshot rang out from next ...

A gunshot rang out from next door. My wife, Tiffany, and I paused in the middle of our Christmas dinner. Seconds later a phone call broke the silence. “I just shot a polar bear that’s been trying to ...

Arctic temperatures are rising nearly four times faster than those in the rest of the world, resulting in the loss of sea ice there. Yet, one group of polar bears—which rely on sea ice to hunt their ...

Winner of the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition’s Grand Jury Prize, Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden’s film is both a nature doc and a haunting ethnographic portrait. By David Rooney Chief ...

With less access to seals on ice, many polar bears are foraging on land, eating reindeer, bird eggs, walrus remains, and harbor seals. We asked retired astronauts about their favorite space movies, ...

The Detroit Zoo and Toledo Zoo have exchanged polar bears to support conservation efforts. A 13-year-old polar bear named Kali has arrived at the Detroit Zoo from Toledo. Nuka, a longtime resident of ...

ROYAL OAK, MI - A polar bear with an improbable survival story has just moved to Michigan. 13-year old Kali now calls the Detroit Zoo’s Arctic Ring of Life habitat his home. Kali came to the Detroit ...

In a warming world, the polar bear has become the unofficial mascot of ecological collapse. We’ve all seen the photos of these majestic predators reduced to skin and bone, clinging to ever-shrinking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three polar bear cubs gather around their tranquilized mother. She had a litter of three cubs (an unusual brood size) and the ...

Rising temperatures and rapidly melting sea ice threaten polar bears across the Arctic. But the bears living 800 miles north of the Arctic Circle have stayed surprisingly fat, researchers report ...

Seals favored by Svalbard bears are becoming easier to hunt as ice declines, a study found. But researchers say the situation may be temporary. By Eric Niiler The population of polar bears in Norway’s ...

Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. These giant bears hunt, mate and spend their days hanging out on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing as the climate ...