Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

Two tourists from Turkey were in Arctic Bay to document the effects of climate change and to photograph polar bears in the Nunavut territory recently, but wound up in hot water with the locals when ...

This is a polar bear still-hunting at a seal hole on the sea ice of the southern Beaufort Sea. (Mike Lockhart, USGS) Sign up for new weekly newsletter Closing Arguments to get the latest about ongoing ...

Two wildlife photographers from Turkey have issued an apology for posting a video to social media in which they criticized Native hunters in Nunavut for hunting polar bears. The men, Süha Derbent and ...

We arrived in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, in the middle of autumn in 2004. That date feels like prehistory, almost antediluvian by today’s reckoning with climate change. Polar bears were everywhere ...

Sept. 6, 2006 — -- The breakup of Arctic sea ice because of global warming is depriving polar bears of weeks of valuable hunting time they need to survive the long ice-free months without food, ...

A travel company is now accepting reservations for a $43,000 polar bear hunt in the Arctic Circle. The 10-day Canadian adventure also offers the chance to shoot a walrus. The company, known as Huntin' ...

Moscow - Russia will not allow any polar bear hunting in its far north, despite agreeing a quota of 29 bears with the United States, the government said in a statement posted on Thursday on its ...

WASHINGTON — Officials from northern Canada were in Washington on Monday to make an unpopular argument: Let U.S. hunters continue to kill polar bears for sport. The politicians from Canada's Northwest ...

“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” ‘It is done.’ People did not like it here.” —Kurt Vonnegut, “Man Without a Country” To see the polar bear ...