The connection between an individual animal’s death and climate change is rarely clear—even when an animal is as emaciated as this polar bear. Photographer Paul Nicklen and I are on a mission ...

It is harrowing footage. An emaciated polar bear searches for food on Baffin Island, north-eastern Canada. Exhausted, it drags one leg slowly behind it, eventually trying to eat some discarded ...

The vision of a polar bear plucking a vulnerable seal off an ice floe is something familiar to wildlife documentary fanatics. Earlier this winter, though, an image of an emaciated polar bear went ...

It shows an emaciated polar bear on the coast of Baffin Island, in Nunavut. The short film was captured last August by Sea Legacy, an ocean-conservation group that uses media to explain how humans ...

In 2011, a trip-wire designed to alert a group camping near Longyearbyen failed, and a polar bear "reported to be starving and emaciated" killed a 17-year-old British boy and injured four others.