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’). So they’re at particular risk ...

You can find polar bears on land if there is no nearby sea ice, or swimming between floating ice islands during warmer weather. Where do pandas live? Giant panda and red panda habitat, plus other ...

In 2024, the Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat was involved in advancements in research, it made progress on exhibit redesigns and ...

If sea ice and its denizens are to be protected ... Enric Sala is leading an effort to preserve some of the bears’ dwindling habitat. “In Russia we found bears stuck on islands eating grass ...

Some polar bears face starvation as the Arctic sea ice melts because they are unable to adapt their diets to living on land, scientists have found. The iconic Arctic species normally feed on ...

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...

"Designation of critical habitat affords important protections to the polar bear, a species imperiled by dramatic changes in its sea ice environment," says Geoff York, senior program officer for Polar ...

Climate change poses a severe threat to polar bears, leading to their designation as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 2008. The main risk is the loss of sea ice habitat ...

According to Polar Bear International , a nonprofit group supporting polar bear conservation, thereâÄôs been a 620,000 square mile decrease in sea ice, a critical polar bear habitat, over the last 25 ...

polar bears are classified as a threatened species; scientists say the biggest threat to their future is the continuing loss of sea ice habitat, which they depend on as a platform from which to ...