Polar Bears

Polar bears take over Russian town, leave locals both delighted and terrified

Russian officials have a couple of options to handle it, but no immediate solution for now.

Allergies, polar bears and glaciers: 10 instances of climate change in action

You don't just feel the heat of global warming, you can see it in action all around.

Russian scientists trapped by polar bears receive emergency supplies

Five Russian meteorologists at a remote weather station in the Arctic are currently being besieged by about 10 polar bears for nearly two weeks on Troynoy island.

Arctic sea could be ice-free by 2015

A researcher from Cambridge University says that ice over the Arctic sea is shrinking so rapidly that it may vanish altogether in four years' time, destroying the natural habitat of animals like polar bears.