The great white polar bear is the youngest and largest of the world's bear species — a mighty hunter and fierce defender of its young that's among the world's most vulnerable animals. Two-thirds of ...

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 ...

Sean Nipisar said his daughter kept asking when they could go hunting as soon as they received their tags to hunt a polar bear.

Other experts have said polar bear visits are now so frequent ... she said - adding that almost all of them appeared to be thin. One expert recently suggested permanently evacuating the village ...

Through the scope, Nipisar watched a polar bear slowly making its way over the thin sea ice. It took more than an hour for the bear to make it to solid land, and Nipisar was able to take her shot.

The federal government shouldn’t allow exploring or drilling for oil on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife ...