A polar bear has been shot dead after it killed a woman and young boy Tuesday afternoon in Alaska. The bear chased "multiple" people before it was fatally shot by a resident during the attack in ...

The victims of a polar bear attack on Tuesday in the remote Alaskan village of Wales include a 24-year-old woman and her 1-year-old son. According to a press release by the Alaska Department of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Biden administration issued a final rule today allowing oil and gas companies operating in the Beaufort Sea and Western Arctic to harass polar bears and Pacific walruses when ...

Climate change is causing Arctic sea ice to melt earlier and freeze later, so polar bears are spending more time on land. In Alaska and Russia, observers have seen polar bears stalking and killing ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Biden administration issued a proposed rule today allowing oil companies operating in the Beaufort Sea and Western Arctic to harass polar bears and Pacific walruses when ...

To collect e-DNA from wild polar bears in northern Alaska, we sampled the upper layer of snow (~1 cm) from their footprints. The snow was thawed and filtered to capture DNA—in the form of epidermal ...