Polar bear encounters with people are rare, but they can happen to people who live in, work in, or visit the Arctic. Here's how to stay safe.

DULUTH, Minn. - The Lake Superior Zoo probably will reopen sometime after Wednesday, according to Zoological Society CEO Sam Maida. But when - and even if - the zoo's popular polar bear and two seals ...

Polar bear diets should be filled with a lot of fat. So much fat that some researchers study them just to understand how a species that consumes a diet with up to 80% blubber avoids heart disease and ...

A genetic analysis of polar bears in southeast Greenland found that genes related to heat-stress, aging, and metabolism are ...

More than 50 hungry polar bears invaded the Russian coastal village of Belushya Guba over a period of three months, attracted by the local dump. Some bears entered homes and businesses by ripping ...

Icebreaker vessels are important scientific tools, enabling access and research within the polar regions of the world, including the High Arctic. These vessels have the potential to overlap with ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — The polar bear and seals that escaped their exhibits at the flooded Lake Superior Zoo have been moved to a St. Paul zoo. Animal care experts say the move to Como Park Zoo is in ...

Polar bear image captured during aerial survey of the Chukchi Sea. (Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries) Sea ice in the Arctic serves as a habitat for polar bears and their prey, ice seals. But the ice ...

Polar bears face “total extinction” by the end of this century, but scientists have found a small beacon of “hope”.

The cubs are about 10- to 11-months-old and are known as Cubs of the Year (COYS). According to Polar Bears International, both cubs appear to be healthy. They will generally stay with their mother for ...

Rampant avian flu that has impacted millions of poultry birds and thousands of wild birds in the U.S. alone has now killed a polar bear for the first time ever recorded. The Alaska population of the ...