Brookfield Zoo, which has cared for generations of polar bears, hopes to offer guidelines for an area where mothers den at ...

The species is adapting to warmer temperatures ...

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 — ...

In fact, polar bears do not actually have white fur. No, we aren’t kidding. These fluffy mammals, which survive in the icy ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Oregon zoo has welcomed a new resident, Kallik, a 3-year-old polar bear, who is settling into his new home.

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 ...

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 ...