Hungry polar bears are turning to rubbish dumps to fill their stomachs as their icy habitat disappears. On Wednesday, a team of Canadian and US scientists warned that trash poses an emerging ...

The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species — a mighty hunter and fierce defender of its young that's among the world's most vulnerable animals. Two-thirds of ...

A stunning polar bear roams the vast, frozen tundra in icy Alaska, its powerful frame moving gracefully across the snow-covered landscape. A lone polar bear tirelessly searches the expansive ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in a remote Icelandic village, the latest casualty of growing tensions between humans and the Arctic mammals. Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore ...

Why did the brown bear evolve into the polar bear? Animation describing how brown bears adapted to life in the Arctic. Sam, a young tortoise, is hungry. Grandad Charlie tells him a story about how ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...