In the Canadian Arctic, a hunter shot what he believed was a polar bear. What officials recovered instead was something never documented in the wild before — a hybrid with white fur, brown patches, ...

BARROW, Alaska — Most Alaskans and Canadians have a bear story — tales of fearsome grizzlies, even polar bears. But a mix of the two? Get up-to-the-minute news ...

Meet our story’s protagonist: a female polar bear. Displaced by shrinking sea ice in the Arctic, she was forced to wander south, deeper into the Canadian Northwest Territories. Here, our lady in white ...

These polar bears appear to be maintaining their physical health despite the loss of sea ice—their preferred hunting grounds ...