Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to wet snow that gets stuck to the pads and freezes into blocks. When you ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The researchers say they’re unsure how the injuries will affect polar bear populations, but they speculate the injuries could reduce the bears’ ...

Polar bears in some parts of the high Arctic are developing ice buildup and related injuries to their feet. The changes appear to be an unexpected consequence of climate change, related to changing ...

Polar bears are developing horrific wounds on their paws due to changing ice conditions in the Arctic, a new study reports. In the most severe cases, researchers describe two bears with crippling, ...

Researchers can now extract environmental DNA from paw prints left in the snow by threatened species, such as polar bears and lynxes, and use it to monitor their populations. Polar bears and lynxes, ...

Polar bears live in rugged, hard-to-reach places in the Arctic. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Polar bears are mostly solitary creatures that can cover huge swaths of rugged, remote terrain in Canada, ...

Three adult polar bears travel across sea ice in eastern Greenland. Environments in the Far North that would have stayed well below freezing now experience freeze-thaw cycles and wet snow due to a ...