Polar bears near Svalbard are gaining fat despite sea ice loss, revealing how some Arctic wildlife is adapting to warming.

For years, images of thin polar bears stranded on shrinking ice floes shaped how many people understood climate change in the Arctic. Those photos seemed to confirm dire predictions, that as sea ice ...

These polar bears appear to be maintaining their physical health despite the loss of sea ice—their preferred hunting grounds ...

A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polar bears in Svalbard have stayed in good physical condition despite rapid loss of their sea ice habitat due to climate change, ...

Remarkably, the number of days with no ice in the region increased by roughly 100 during that period. And yet, as the authors found, the body condition of both male and female polar bears—i.e., how ...

Svalbard’s polar bears keep body condition despite rapid ice loss, study finds - Surprising results show how different polar bear populations are responding differently to climate change.