An image of polar bears napping along the Hudson Bay coast in Canada has been shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People's Choice Award 2026.

Experts documented a rare case of one polar bear adopting another’s cub, offering an exciting moment of hope for the species.

Against the backdrop of Arctic warming, polar bears in Norway’s far north are gaining fat and feeding on new prey—a testament ...

In Churchill, Canada, polar bears gather by the hundreds in the fall, waiting for the nearby bay to freeze. The human ...

The challenge of coexistence — whether between different peoples or between humans and animals — infuses every frame of ...

In 2021 Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman made a short about polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada,known as the Polar Bear Capitol of the World. The re ...

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

Travel to Churchill in northern Canada to see the world’s greatest concentration of polar bears. Learn more about their evolutionary history and learn about the role ecotourism plays in the protection ...

Polar bears need fat to survive the harsh Arctic cold; that’s why they eat blubbery seals. Seals, meanwhile, need ice to rest ...

“Svalbard (and the Barents Sea area) has experienced a much faster loss of sea ice than other areas having polar bears,” Aars ...

Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors found, the body condition of both male and female polar bears—i.e., how ...