The polar bear image taken by Audun Rikardsen was among the 'highly commended' entries in this year's competition.

An orphaned polar bear cub from the Churchill area has been moved to Winnipeg after its mother was found dead, leaving the young animal with little chance of surviving on its own. The rescue has ...

Polar bear encounters with humans are a regular concern for scientists and communities near polar bear habitats, but new research is showing the bears' reasons for coming in contact with humans might ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frozen ocean surfaces also serve as travel corridors across the Arctic. Bears move long distances across this shifting landscape ...

You spend weeks. Days blur into nights, all spent in the brutal silence of the Canadian Arctic. A photographer, a silent ...

Climate change has caused temperatures to rise and sea ice in the Arctic to melt. This is a serious problem for polar bears, who hunt seals along the slabs of solid ice. Seals have moved further north ...

A new study shows that fish, birds, and marine mammals in Greenland and the Faroe Islands are polluted with fluorinated chemicals. Brussels, Belgium/Oslo, Norway – A new study shows that fish, birds, ...

An orphaned polar bear cub from the Churchill, Man., area has arrived in Winnipeg, the Assiniboine Park Zoo says.

Amateur photographer Christopher Best (left) was killed by two polar bears while working at a remote Arctic outpost. The photo (seen right) was taken by Best and published on social media the day ...

Beneath the Arctic Ocean's frozen surface, a predator unknown to most people holds the same ecological power as the polar bear, and scientists say it forces a complete rethink of how ocean food webs ...

Under local regulations in the region, "it is forbidden to needlessly disturb, attract or pursue a polar bear".

A boater in Svalbard, Norway, was fined 50,000 Norwegian kroner, or roughly $5,300, after intentionally using a ship horn to ...