A new study published in the journal Oikos reveals for the first time the critical role polar bears play as carrion providers ...

A new study shows how much food polar bears leave behind — and how their decline threatens scavengers across the Arctic.

Many of nature’s apex predators guard their dinner from scavengers until they’ve gobbled up every last morsel and licked the ...

A viral video has captured a group of polar bears taking over an abandoned research station off Russia's far eastern coast — ...

Siku, a 15-year-old male polar bear, is moving in the coming weeks to Madison, Wisconsin — home, of course, of the University of Wisconsin Badgers.

A new study published in the scientific journal Oikos reveals for the first time the critical role polar bears play as ...

It's estimated that polar bears leave behind around 7.6 million kilos of their prey annually, creating a "massive and vital" ...

A new law that scraps key wildlife protections in Ontario, Canada, is causing outrage from conservationists, who said the ...

A recent preprint study used epigenetic clocks, a marker of “biological age,” to find that polar bear populations are aging more quickly than previous generations did, suggesting melting sea ice is ...

Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

Readers respond to recent Post articles and commentary. The Oct. 10 news article “ Trump initiative eyes $50M for Greenland’s ...

By hunting seals on the sea ice and abandoning the remains, polar bears transfer a substantial amount of energy from the ocean to the ice surface, making it accessible to other animals. The study ...