White fur, blubbery skin, sharp claws. Polar bears seem perfectly adapted to their frigid habitat up north. Now, researchers have discovered the bears have another unexpected Arctic adaptation: greasy ...

Arctic royalty gets a surprise challenger In popular culture and nature documentaries, the polar bear has always stood as the ...

A floating research station resembling a giant aluminium igloo set out from France on Sunday to begin a long-term Arctic ...

A mother polar bear stunned scientists by swimming 427 miles across open Arctic water in just nine days. Her near nonstop journey highlights the extreme physical demands polar bears now face as sea ...

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Researchers from Polar Bears International, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and the University of Toronto Scarborough reveal the first detailed look at polar bear cubs ...

Polar bears are the only mammal known to actively hunt humans. Still, every year Canada’s most feared, and revered, residents attract thousands of tourists from around the world. Not only do these ...

Aussie Director / Producer Abraham Joffe is behind this doco on the polar bear fur trade, filmed over six years across nine countries.

An AI-powered radar system called Bear-dar has successfully detected a polar bear mother and her two cubs near Canada's High ...

Award-winning documentary Trade Secret has once again earned critical acclaim at its South African premiere in Cape Town on ...

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 ...