Polar Bears

A starving polar bear has been photographed eating a plastic bin bag in a desperate attempt to find food.  

A polar bear which attacked and injured a guard who was leading tourists off a cruise ship on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago has been shot dead.  

Conservation groups are fighting tooth and nail against Donald Trump’s administration in an effort to stop proposed revisions to the implementation of the Endangered Species Act from taking effect.  

Polar bears and other iconic animals could be extinct by the end of the century if ocean temperatures continue to rise at the current rate, marine biologists warned Monday.  

For the past two decades, scientists have been monitoring the effects of a warming Arctic on the world’s polar bears — and the bears’ future has looked increasingly bleak.  

New science sheds more light on recent controversy over how much the large carnivores are being impacted by melting sea ice.   

Windsor-made Polar Ice vodka has released a run of limited edition “bear-less” bottles to increase awareness about the declining population of polar bears in arctic Canada.  

Lack of sea ice is making it more difficult for polar bears to find food. “When scientists say bears are going extinct, I want people to realise what it looks like. Bears are going to starve to death,” said Nicklen. “This is what a starving bear looks like.”

A boatload of tourists in the far eastern Russian Arctic thought they were seeing clumps of ice on the shore, before the jaw-dropping realisation that some 200 polar bears were roaming on the mountain slope.  

New tests have found a wide range of previously undiscovered contaminants in polar bears around Hudson Bay.  

The Trump administration’s draft environmental impact statement proposes to greenlight the dangerous drilling plan, which would be a first for federal waters in the Arctic.  

Macabre remains of six slaughtered polar bears, ‘beheaded with their skins removed’, now under criminal investigation.