Polar bears are showing up near Arctic communities more often, and headlines suggesting they are “hunting humans” have spread quickly across social media. The reality is far less dramatic but still ...

In early 1993, the Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson arrived at the most remote settlement in Greenland, a lonely town in the east that is tucked away in the world’s largest fjord system, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A polar bear with its cub in Svalbard, Norway. Jon Aars / Norwegian Polar Institute In parts of the Arctic, polar bears are in ...

Polar bears are the furry poster children for the impact of warming Arctic seas, but new research says they may be able adapt and survive the loss of Arctic sea ice by foraging on land. Typically, the ...