Russian scientists who are currently besieged ... Species and the Red Book of Russia as an endangered species. Polar bear hunting has been banned in the country since 1957.

The touching image shows a polar bear curled up on the side of an iceberg ... which migrate between Svalbard and the Russian Arctic Islands, according to the Natural History Museum.

Now, researchers have discovered the bears have another unexpected Arctic adaptation: greasy fur. It’s a trait that, ...

Polar bears can live into their early 30s, but an average of 15 to 18 years in the wild. Rebecca says there is an effort at ...

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...

The Baltic cable ruptures were likely maritime accidents the newspaper reported citing officials from three Western countries ...

But the PE teacher, from Worcestershire, not only crossed the finish line in under five hours, she set the world record for ...

ARKHANGELSK, September 14. /TASS/. A helicopter today delivered dogs and flares to the polar-bear besieged Russian Arctic weather station on the Troynoy island in the Kara Sea, Vassiliy Shevchenko ...

Argentina in this 2010/11 campaign has been supplying Antarctic bases and stations with support from a Russian polar vessel equipped with an icebreaking bow and its own Navy units. Chartered ...