Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walks on pack ice in Svalbard, Norway. Andy Rouse, Nature Picture Library Polar bears are often the ...

Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds by bulking up instead of wasting away, a study said Thursday. The Barents ...

(CNN) — As the sea ice melts due to climate change, the trend of polar bears getting thinner and having fewer cubs has been well documented in areas such as Baffin Bay, a stretch of ocean between ...

Each year, the burly bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve capture global attention in a March Madness-style bracket challenge as fans pick which bear advances in each round. “The bears have been ...

For many athletes, getting into shape for the season involves some combination of building muscle and losing fat. For Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tyler Glasnow, however, the team had a different ...

A new study has found that the trunks of trees in the Amazon have become thicker in recent decades — an unexpected sign of the rainforest’s resilience in response to record-high levels of CO2 in the ...

I’m clearly fatter, but I don’t mind. Don’t care, even. — from my diary a few months into recovery How do you cope with getting fatter? How did I, really? I get asked this a lot, in different guises, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A polar bear with her cub on a snowy beach in Svalbard, Norway on September 17, 2025 - Magnus ...