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 ...

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...

Global warming a term often associated with rising temperatures and melting glaciers seems to be at odds with the bonechilling cold snaps that the United States has been experiencing in recent years.

A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World,” by Kale Williams (Crown) Nobody ever asked them if they wanted the job, but polar bears are the global symbols of climate change.

Aa Aa Aa Until recently, most discussions of modern global warming have looked only as ... cover but retained enough for ringed seals and polar bears to survive, elephants and water buffalo ...