A single polar bear’s range can span 300,000 square kilometres; the size of the United Kingdom and Ireland combined. When hibernating a bear will lose up to a third of its body weight and only ...

Yes! In fact, polar bears can swim better than most mammals, including humans. They’re at home in frigid waters and have ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

Key polar bear facts There are about 26,000 polar bears left in the world, with the majority in Canada. Populations are also found in the US, Russia, Greenland and Norway. Polar bears are listed ...

A father died protecting his children in a rare polar bear attack in Canada's northernmost territory of Nunavut. Aaron Gibbons, 31, was on Sentry Island, a popular fishing and hunting spot on the ...