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 ...

A single polar bear’s range can span 300,000 square kilometres; the size of the United Kingdom and Ireland combined. When hibernating a bear will lose up to a third of its body weight and only ...

Polar bears spend about 50% of their time hunting, and only two out of ten seal hunts are successful. If no seals can be found, these apex predators will eat anything they can get, including ...

Only one of 34 grizzly bears involved in eco-tourism has ended up in conflict with humans in the Bella Coola Valley, a UVic ...

As the Arctic warms, polar bears face a growing risk of contracting viruses, bacteria and parasites that they were less likely to encounter just 30 years ago, research has revealed. In a study ...