Key studies and observations documenting climate change impacts to polar bears are summarized below. Polar bear populations are declining: The Polar Bear Specialist Group of the IUCN determined that 8 ...

At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and ...

Scientists have now quantified how much climate change has drastically reduced the number of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay, the most studied group of polar bears in the world.

"A mouse also requires less food and less space to live. If the climate changes, one of the many offspring may survive. That ...

so it’s impossible to say that polar bears are generally struggling because of climate change, Rode said. “There has been no study that I know of that said more bears starve specifically as a ...

Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published Monday. The research predicts the ...

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay. The clock is set to 89 seconds to "midnight" as scientists and ...

International Polar Bear Day highlights conservation efforts to protect polar bears and their fragile Arctic habitat.

How is climate change affecting polar regions? Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the ...

Female polar bears give birth in December or early January when the cubs are blind, hairless and weigh just 0.5 kg.

In the Arctic, climate change impacts will be seen earlier are more dramatically ... The consequences for all arctic species will be severe. In the southern range of polar bears, for example the ...