Researchers have directly linked population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay to shrinking sea ice caused by climate change.

For the first time polar bear DNA has been isolated from a track left in the snow. A team of French scientists working in partnership with conservation organization WWF has for the first time isolated ...

Monitoring polar bear populations is important for their conservation and management, but is also challenging because they occupy vast, remote, and extreme regions. With the loss of sea ice, ...

The “bio-energetic” model developed by the researchers tracks the amount ... of individual polar bears – from cub to adulthood – and compares it to four decades of monitoring data from the Western ...