Polar bears near Svalbard are gaining fat despite sea ice loss, revealing how some Arctic wildlife is adapting to warming.

Arctic temperatures are rising nearly four times faster than those in the rest of the world, resulting in the loss of sea ice ...

For years, images of thin polar bears stranded on shrinking ice floes shaped how many people understood climate change in the ...

Scientists expected the opposite, but polar bears in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have become fatter and ...

Learn how polar bears in the Arctic’s Barents Sea are maintaining healthy fat reserves despite sea ice loss in a warming ...

After decades monitoring polar bears in Norway's far north, researchers say the animals have proven incredibly adaptable, but ...

Polar bears can struggle to adapt to climate change. Bears on Svalbard may be surviving on land prey and seals — but scientists warn it may not last.

Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds ...

In a warming world, the polar bear has become the unofficial mascot of ecological collapse. We’ve all seen the photos of ...

“Svalbard (and the Barents Sea area) has experienced a much faster loss of sea ice than other areas having polar bears,” Aars ...

Decades of melting sea ice and increasingly ice-free days in the region have not had the expected health impacts on this ...

The documentary Nuisance Bear presents a nuanced problem plaguing the Polar Bear Capital of the World without pointing ...