The haunting polar bear photo is one of 24 finalists for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award ...

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.

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

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

Scientists tracking a female polar bear in Canada’s Western Hudson Bay were stunned when she reappeared mysteriously with an ...

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

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 ...