As the planet heats up, the summer sea ice and all the superbly adapted life it supports—the bears, the seals, the walruses, the whales, the Arctic cod, the crustaceans, the ice algae—may well ...

Seal and polar bear behavioral response to an icebreaker vessel in northwest ... enabling access and research within the polar regions of the world, including the High Arctic. These vessels have the ...

Oil development and shipping are not only a threat to polar bears and ice seals, but also to the highly endangered North Pacific right whale and bowhead whale that frequent the Arctic’s icy waters.

They need lots of seal fat to survive and will consume on average 4.4 pounds of fat per day, the World Wide Fund for Nature reports. Food is often hard to come by in the Arctic, so polar bears ...

So they’re at particular risk from global warming, which is melting the Arctic sea ice they depend on. Polar bears generally live and hunt alone, though they can be quite social too. They mainly eat ...

At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada ... After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen home to hunt seals and bulk up. "They're just dreaming of ice ...

which eat the algae and are in turn eaten by arctic cod, seabirds, and bowhead whales. For marine mammals such as the polar bear, Pacific walrus, and ringed seal, the loss of hundreds of thousands ...

“What’s happening is the Arctic is warming two to ... "And that pushes bears too hard, when they’re on ice they’re hunting seals, gaining fat, getting big and when they come off of that ...

The Detroit Zoo welcomed Haley, a 22-year-old polar bear, to its Arctic Ring of Life habitat. She joins two other polar bears ...

This year's Arctic sea ice peak is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, according to data released by the US National ...