Polar Bears

6+ hour, 49+ min ago   (396+ words) Polar bears don't follow national borders. Find out how our international policy work is supporting conservation. Emily Ringer, Polar Bears International's director of policy and advocacy, talked with us about PBI’s policy work and how it impacts polar bear conservation....

6+ hour, 49+ min ago   (644+ words) When a population of polar bears starts to decline, it can be for several reasons. In the past, over-hunting greatly reduced polar bears across the Arctic. But today the biggest factor in a polar bear population decline is what biologists…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago   (832+ words) As much as we need strong science, we also need partners who can help us translate it, amplify it, and carry it beyond the scientific community. One of my earliest memories is from when I was four years old, sitting…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (115+ words) Fairbanks Daily News-Miner A polar bear walks onshore in Alaska on Sept. 6, 2019. This year's Arctic Report Card, to be issued under new management after the Trump administration pulled federal support, is set to include a chapter updating the status of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (176+ words) Quite often, in a case of ‘polar confusion’, people envision polar bears rubbing shoulders with penguins in some unspecified icy waste. And with sea-ice cover in the Arctic Ocean at record lows, some wits might suggest transplanting starving bears to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (114+ words) Montana Outdoor $27,000 for feeding bears and coyotes: Fair fine or too steep? A man in British Columbia was hit with a $27,000 penalty for intentionally feeding bears and coyotes near a popular walking trail and homes. Conservation officers say he placed…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (635+ words) COCHRANE — Diego Rojas Garcia had spent years learning the ins and outs of filmmaking, but nothing quite prepared him for the moment a massive polar bear suddenly appeared in front of him. Garcia was in Cochrane in January with his…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (347+ words) In the icy vastness of Siberia’s boreal forests, a place both remote and forbidding, few living creatures risk exposure to the relentless cold. Yet beneath fallen logs and deep in hidden refuges, a small amphibian persists against almost impossible odds....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (210+ words) Two polar bears show off their playful side as they engage in a series of energetic encounters in a snowy landscape. The footage captures the majestic animals standing on their hind legs and batting at each other with their enormous…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (523+ words) In the icy waters of the Arctic, where most eyes are drawn to the imposing polar bear, scientists have uncovered a different kind of top hunter lurking below the surface. Out of sight but impossible to ignore, certain starfish have…...