New regulations present challenges to wildlife viewing in Svalbard, but they haven’t sent tourism into a deep freeze, says Sarah Marshall.

We were camped in the Northwest Territories conducting research when our camp dog started barking. Then the polar bear charged me.

The most extensive and successful polar bear education program in the world has protected people and the bears for more than 60 years in Canada.

A man is recovering in the hospital from injuries sustained while fighting a polar bear to protect his wife from being mauled in northern Ontario, Canadian authorities said.

When Knut the polar bear was rejected by his mother at the Berlin Zoo, a debate caught fire over whether it was more humane to keep him alive or euthanize him. Today, as the Fed raises interest ...

Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore, but attacks on humans are extremely uncommon – only 73 were recorded between 1870 and 2014, in Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and the US.

Polar bears are facing greater risk of starvation as Arctic ice melts and they endure longer ice-free seasons, researchers said in a study published Tuesday.

Visitors eager to see polar bears saved the town from shrinking out of existence when a military base closed in the 1970s, dropping the population from a few thousand to about 870.

The global polar bear population is estimated to be 26,000, with the species primarily remaining in the artic areas of Russia, Norway, Greenland, Canada and the United States.

Some Manitoba researchers are looking into the potential impact and overlap of wildfires with polar bear denning habitat.

As Arctic ice melts, polar bears must leave their homes. Biologist and conservationist Alysa McCall shares lessons on how to plan for a future where climate change forces us all a little closer.