WASHINGTON — Government officials say the Interior Department has decided to protect the polar bear as a threatened species because of global warming. The officials told The Associated Press the bears ...

The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species yesterday because of the loss of Arctic sea ice but also cautioned that the decision should not be viewed as a path to change U.S.

Polar bears are well-managed, and their population has dramatically increased over 30 years as a result of conservation, she said. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne responded that he had considered ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials in Alaska face some 140,000 submitted comments on whether to list polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, but said they ...

Last week, the Bush administration officially acknowledged the polar bear’s plight – listing it as a “threatened species” under the Endangered Species Act. Don’t celebrate yet. This is ...

An investigation by The Guardian alleges the World Wildlife Fund's position on the polar bear fur trade is shockingly lax. Critics argue the organization should use its considerable influence to put ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The polar bear can be found in just one place in America — Alaska — and is perhaps as much a symbol of the state as, say, alligators are of Florida. So you might think Alaska’s ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Scientists and native people in the Arctic want to protect Canada's polar bears despite disagreements over the health of the bear population, Environment ...

Cecilia Blomdahl is a content creator with over 1 million followers on TikTok, who lives in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago close to the North Pole She recently opened up on her TikTok about what it ...