The Center has led the charge to save polar bears from extinction. We wrote the 2005 scientific petition calling for their protection under the Endangered Species Act, and we filed suit twice with our ...

The US government has opted to retain a Bush-era rule that limits protection for polar bears from the effects of global warming. Environmental groups had been calling for the rule to be lifted ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

While the number of bears plummeted up to the 1980s this was mainly due to unsustainable hunting. With greater legal protection, polar bear numbers have risen. But increasing global temperatures ...

TASS/. Russian scientists who are currently besieged by polar bears at a weather station on the Troynoy island in the Kara Sea will be sent dogs for protection and also flares, Vassiliy Shevchenko ...

A father died protecting his children in a rare polar bear attack in Canada's northernmost territory of Nunavut. Aaron Gibbons, 31, was on Sentry Island, a popular fishing and hunting spot on the ...

Learn more about their evolutionary history and learn about the role ecotourism plays in the protection of polar bears and Arctic biodiversity. Begin in Winnipeg, the capital of the Canadian ...

Despite suffering severe injuries to his arm and legs, a man who leapt onto a polar bear to protect his wife during an attack in Ontario, Canada is expected to recover. According to a media ...