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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polar Bear mother with her cubs in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada. Right now, polar bear moms are tending to their newborn ...

Polar bears in Svalbard are better off than researchers anticipated.

For nine days, a polar bear mother, formally known as Bear #20741, did not stop swimming. In the vast, open water of the Arctic, where solid ice once stretched for miles, the female polar bear pushed ...

After eight years of planning, wildlife photojournalist Andy Skillen finally captured one of the Arctic’s rarest spectacles: polar bears fishing for char in a remote northern Canadian fjord I checked ...

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Leaders in Kaktovik want to ensure boat tours are led by locals, and that visitor numbers are kept at a sustainable level.