Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors ...

Scientists think that Svalbard bears have adapted to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey.

The finding offers a small window of hope for a polar bear population vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the ...

Polar bears near Svalbard are gaining fat despite sea ice loss, revealing how some Arctic wildlife is adapting to warming.

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The ...

Well, well, well. How inconvenient. Exactly 20 years after climate change was catapulted to the top of the political agenda, the poster creature of the crisis – the polar bear – appears to be doing ...