I was just four years old when my family moved to Baffin Island, Canada, where we lived in a remote village among the Indigenous Peoples known as the Inuit. I spent most of my time outside, roaming ...

Britain's flagship polar research vessel heads to Antarctica next week to help advance dozens of climate change-linked science projects, as Western nations spearhead studies there while the United ...

“How much weight can a polar bear lose before it’s too late?” That’s the question plaguing researchers after a remarkable study, in which GoPro cameras attached to GPS collars provided an ...

A new study shows how much food polar bears leave behind — and how their decline threatens scavengers across the Arctic.

BIRKENHEAD, England, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Britain's new polar ship, the Sir David Attenborough, will leave for sea trials on Wednesday to be put through its paces before making its maiden voyage to ...

A new study published in the journal Oikos reveals for the first time the critical role polar bears play as carrion providers ...

The large amounts of melting sea ice due to rising global temperatures are impacting polar bears' ability to hunt for seals, forcing them to adapt to new ways of finding food. However, these ...

Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries. Ashild Onvik Pedersen, a scientist who is armed with a rifle in ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A “civil war” is brewing in polar science. As climate change rapidly melts Earth’s ice, sides are being drawn ...

It's estimated that polar bears leave behind around 7.6 million kilos of their prey annually, creating a "massive and vital" ...