Scientists monitor polar bears because, like you said, the Arctic ice is declining – and it’s happening fast. The ice is melting because of global warming. When humans burn fossil fuels like ...

Listed as a "vulnerable" species that is threatened with extinction, polar bears are set to become one of the most notable casualties of global warming unless drastic action is taken. Polar bears are ...

“Scientists are already unpleasantly surprised at how quickly the impacts of warming such as sea ice loss are showing up in the polar regions, exceeding recent predictions.” Global average warming due ...

Global warming and the resulting reduction in sea ice have significant implications for polar bear populations, which rely heavily on sea ice for hunting, mating, and raising their young.

AS MIDNIGHT approaches in Svalbard, a young polar bear climbs onto an iceberg and carves himself ... But that is for a good reason: global warming is having a particularly rapid effect in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

the Arctic Polar Bear could be the first species to be listed as threatened with extinction due to Global Warming. The real bears’ existence in the wild is not so idyllic: they’ve been caught ...

We all know that the repercussions of global warming are complex and multifarious ... frigid environs of the Arctic Circle, like the polar bear, are facing far more challenging issues.