Researchers analyzed blood samples from polar bears located in northeastern and southeastern Greenland. The results showed ...

The changing climate poses a major threat to polar bear survival. But new research suggests that rising temperatures may be ...

“They (polar bears) have indeed lost a lot of their past genetic diversity, and because of this, they are very likely more sensitive to climate-change threats today.” An analysis of newly sequenced ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...

Joanna Lynne Kelley. Photo by Jennifer Feitosa. Growing up in the woods of Santa Cruz, Joanna Lynne Kelley was constantly exposed to the beauty and diversity of nature. Surrounded by the variety of ...

The warming of the Arctic is transforming not only its ice but also the genetics of its inhabitants. According to a study ...

A polar bear feasts on a seal it captured in the receding tide along the Hudson Bay Lowlands. Ryan St. John peers through his binoculars on the shore of Hudson Bay near his home community of Arviat, ...