“It’s definitely a bad report. We did pick up little bit from last year, but this is over 30 percent below what used to be normal,” said Walt Meier, a...

Scientists from the World Wildlife Fund, who are recording the ice cover over the North Pole, said less ice is predicted in the Arctic this year than in any other.

Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and...

What has happened over the past couple of decades that has landed the mighty polar bear on the “threatened” list under the Endangered Species Act?...

Polar bears may get more attention – and later this week a court-ordered decision by the US government will almost certainly see them listed as a threatened species...

Polar bears are under threat due to warming caused by greenhouse gases emission from burning fossil fuels. The ice edge where the bears hunt in spring are melting too...

The Bush administration is weeks away from a decision that most likely will designate polar bears as a threatened species, but it said Thursday that it won’t...