The vision of a polar bear plucking a vulnerable seal off an ice floe is something familiar to wildlife documentary fanatics. Earlier this winter, though, an image of an emaciated polar bear went ...

Growing evidence shows that harmful chemicals are already affecting the health of many Arctic animals, such as polar bears, beluga whales, seals and seabirds, according to a new WWF report.

So they’re at particular risk from global warming, which is melting the Arctic sea ice they depend on. Polar bears generally live and hunt alone, though they can be quite social too. They mainly eat ...

The iconic Arctic species normally feed on ringed seals that they catch on ice ... around 3m long and can weigh close to 600kg. Polar bears can eat up to 45kg of blubber in one sitting.

and this polar bear planned on eating some two-legged seals. Hunkered in the flimsy shack, the men watched in growing fear as this bear pushed, and shook, and snarled and pulled, trying to get at its ...