Seeing any living thing suffer is one of the hardest things to watch. Feeling empathy for an animal in pain is intrinsically ...

WWF does not lobby for or work to support or promote the polar bear fur trade, and we have been actively seeking amendments to inaccuracies in a recent piece published in The Guardian. Hunting is a ...

A photographer captured a beautiful moment in Svalbard's Arctic waters, but climate change threatens to change that.

Polar bears face mounting challenges in a changing, warming world, mostly related to their waning wintery wonderland habitats. But they may be increasingly infected with germs and parasites, too.

Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to wet snow that gets stuck to the pads and freezes into blocks. When you ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has estimated that there have been sharp declines in Alaska's polar bear population. Alaska polar bears face serious threats because of rising global temperatures ...