A person was given a hefty fine for intentionally waking a sleeping polar bear with a ship's horn in Norway's Svalbard.

I'd like to attribute my obsession with polar bears to a family tradition. My older cousins were given stuffed white Gund bears when they were born, and when I came out a decade later, the same polar ...

In a new paper, researchers recorded bears in Alaska increasingly turning to eider and guillemot eggs and chicks as sea ice ...

Polar bears are the largest land predators on Earth, perfectly adapted to survive in one of the harshest environments on the ...

An annual marathon in northern Canada was recently interrupted by a polar bear, according to Running Magazine. The aptly-named Polar Bear Marathon takes runners along the Hudson Bay shoreline, ...

The polar bear image taken by Audun Rikardsen was among the 'highly commended' entries in this year's competition.

A new book by well-known polar bear scientist, arctic ecologist and long-time WWF advisor, Dr Ian Stirling, compresses the major discoveries of the last 40 years of research on polar bears into a ...

An orphaned polar bear cub from the Churchill, Man., area has arrived in Winnipeg, the Assiniboine Park Zoo says.

So many exotic baby animals have rocked the internet. And now there's a new one to add to the ranks. Moo Deng the Pygmy Hippo, Pesto the Huge Penguin, and Punch the Monkey can all welcome into the ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we read an email from a listener who, as a kid, shared a fun fact with her classroom: polar bears have black skin. Her teacher not only told her she was wrong ...

12 March 2013 -- CITES listings control only international trade in wildlife and wildlife products. At WWF we often support complete international trade bans, for example when it comes to tigers and ...