The species is adapting to warmer temperatures ...

Researchers have found that certain changes in polar bear DNA are linked to bears living in warmer places — with implications for how the animals adapt to a warming planet. A recent study published in ...

Regular folks who care about wildlife generally know that climate change is bad for polar bears, but they have only vague ...

Yet in the past 12 years, at least 467 species have gone extinct, with most of these creatures — including a type of rodent called the melomy and a Hawaiian tree snail called Achatinella apexfulva — ...

GENEVA (AP) — Nations will be asked to decide whether the polar bear should be considered an endangered species because of global warming. The U.S. proposal to increase the protection given to polar ...

PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN) – A “playful” polar bear is making a splash as the newest arrival at the Oregon Zoo. Kallik, a ...

WASHINGTON — Government officials say the Interior Department has decided to protect the polar bear as a threatened species because of global warming. The officials told The Associated Press the bears ...

CINCINNATI (AP) -- An Ohio zoo has become the repository for the world's largest collection of polar bear poop as researchers work to create a pregnancy test to aid the survival of this endangered ...

Just 13 years after gray wolves were re-introduced into the lower 48 states, they're going off the Endangered Species List. At the same time, polar bears may go on the list—because of dangers that lie ...

In the Canadian Arctic, a hunter shot what he believed was a polar bear. What officials recovered instead was something never documented in the wild before — a hybrid with white fur, brown patches, ...

A new resident has arrived at the Oregon Zoo's Polar Passage habitat: Kallik, a three-year-old polar bear from the Saint ...

The polar bear has a become an (insufferably cute) symbol of global warming -- meaning we were extra keen on reading into a new study, published in Science, on the genetic origins of these ...