Polar bear mothers in the Arctic generally give birth in early January around the start of the new year. The cubs are born completely blind, do not have their signature snow-colored fur, and generally ...

The extremely rare footage was captured by remote cameras deployed in the Arctic mountains for nearly a decade.

Not too long ago I was the guide on a wildlife-photography trip to Svalbard, an archipelago halfway between Norway’s mainland ... He had spotted a polar bear approaching in the distance under ...

Nickels’ photograph took gold in the Behavior-Mammals category at the 2025 World Nature Photography Awards. This year’s ...

Unprecedented footage of polar bear snow dens reveals hidden new insights about the majestic animals. In the frozen wilderness of Svalbard, Norway, a mother polar bear and her cubs emerge from their ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the ... uses photography to spread the message ...

A polar bear fetching a stick and other jaw-dropping moments from this year's World Nature Photography Awards.

Bodil Holst at the University of Bergen in Norway and her colleagues have shown that the ice resistance of polar bear fur is due to natural oils secreted onto the hairs, rather than a property of ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear ... Greenland and Norway (Svalbard) ...