This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic ... Arctic’s top predator; the cub remains on all fours behind her. For a few timeless moments we savor the scene—bears ...

the polar bear stands alone at the top of the food chain. Yet many other hunters manage to survive in and around harsh arctic waters from the savvy arctic fox to the massive, whiskered walrus.

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Under the midnight sun, beside a hole in the Arctic ice, a polar bear found something new—Audun Rikardsen ...