A polar bear devours a sperm whale on the ice of Svalbard, a scene that reveals how Arctic wildlife is struggling to survive ...

As the world's largest bear, and largest land carnivore, polar bears are impressive mammals and are adapted to living in the ...

Deep in the ice-covered peaks of Norway lies the sleepy Arctic village of Svalbard. With fewer than 3,000 residents, its ...

A jaguar that snuck up on a photographer trying to spot an armadillo, a polar bear sitting on a sperm whale, and more take ...

In all but two of the Arctic's 19 polar bear subpopulations, sea ice cover dropped 7 to 19 days per decade from 1979 to 2014. In the Beaufort Sea region, where sea ice now lasts roughly 36 days a year ...

A new method of tracking the dietary habits and contaminant exposure of animals in Arctic marine ecosystems is providing critical insights as climate change reshapes the region's food web. The ...

Jessica Farrer–a marine biologist who serves as Research Director at The Whale Museum, and part of the team of scientists working temporarily in Antarctica Peninsula, profiled in “Expedition Killer ...

Humpback whales live in all the world's oceans, from the Arctic to the tropics to the Antarctic, and many of them make annual migrations between 3,000 and 8,000km. But one individual has gone on a ...

RRS Sir David Attenborough scientists are trying to measure the potentially crucial role of ocean manganese, finds. But how do you do cutting-edge science in the inhospitable Southern Ocean?