A study identifies that at least eleven species of vertebrates benefit from this carrion, including Arctic foxes and ravens.

Just 13 years after gray wolves were re-introduced into the lower 48 states, they're going off the Endangered Species List. At the same time, polar bears may go on the list—because of dangers that lie ...

The ice packs where polar bears live and hunt during winter are shrinking, and the bears can’t find food on the land. The US Fish and Wildlife Service says they should be put on the Endangered Species ...

The environmental organization Ontario Nature says Ontario’s Bill 5 puts the future of polar bears in the province at risk.

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

Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published Monday that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime. On current ...

A lawyer arguing for the state of Alaska that polar bears are not a threatened species ran into skeptical appeals court judges Friday. Alaska, along with hunting groups and others, is appealing the ...

A new law that scraps key wildlife protections in Ontario, Canada, is causing outrage from conservationists, who said the ...

SEATTLE -- Polar bears are skating on thin ice in Alaska these days: Warming temperatures have resulted in dramatic shrinkage of sea ice, leaving the bears with fewer ice floes on which to rest and ...

SAN FRANCISCO, California, December 17, 2008 (ENS) - Regulations announced by Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne last week that would exempt many federal activities, including those that ...