Some polar bears are showing unprecedented resilience to climate change
As climate change is often visualized through the image of a thin polar bear stranded on shrinking ice, it is easy to assume every population is already declining in the…
He Lived In A Tiny Cage For 27 Years — Now He’s Seeing The Sky For The First Time
As a cub, Sen was taken from his natural habitat and sold into the bear bile industry in Vietnam. For the next 27 years, he lived confined to a cramped…
Grim photo captures polar bear mom and cubs resting in mud in summer heat
A striking photograph of a mother polar bear and her three cubs napping along the Hudson Bay coast in Canada has been shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year…
South Korea bans bear bile farming with jail for those who breach the law
South Korea is set to officially bring its bear bile farming industry to an end this week, although nearly 200 bears remain confined on farms as negotiations over their future…
Rescued bear pair now ‘thriving’, sanctuary says
Staff caring for two rescued brown bears say the pair are now healthy, settled and thriving after being saved from cramped conditions in Azerbaijan. Benji and Balu arrived at the…
Pilots inches from being polar bears’ lunch
Two pilots narrowly avoided disaster in Staffordshire after coming within inches of landing inside a polar bear enclosure. The close call occurred on Tuesday at Peak Wildlife Park in Leek,…
Polar bears in southern Greenland are ‘using jumping genes to rapidly rewrite their own DNA’ to survive melting sea ice
Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions. Rising temperatures may be triggering genetic changes in polar bears…
2 Bears Figure out How to Make a ‘See-Saw’ in Playful Moment Caught on Video (WATCH)
Playtime at the Queens Zoo The Queens Zoo shared a short and heartwarming video this week that quickly caught people’s attention. The clip shows two young Andean bears having a…
Unbearable living situation: Bear under Altadena home showing no signs of leaving
“I feel nervous all the time,” homeowner Ken Johnson said. “I’m always looking over my shoulder to see if he’s coming out.” A large black bear in Altadena has taken…
Deputies Responding To Car Break-In Find A ‘Furry Bandit’ Behind The Wheel
“He wasn’t thrilled about the situation either.” Late last month, in the early hours, Larimer County sheriff’s deputies in Colorado got a surprising call: a resident reported that their car…