Aromatic attractants like meat caches, campsites, cooking areas, and sled-dog yards also lure them with the reward of food.

Polar bears are showing up near Arctic communities more often, and headlines suggesting they are “hunting humans” have spread ...

Polar bears depend on frozen ocean surfaces more than any other land predator. The ice functions as a platform where they ...

Polar bears near the remote archipelago of Svalbard are getting heavier, not thinner, even as the sea ice they depend on continues to shrink. New research points to conservation history as a key ...