Polar bears are one of the most majestic, yet fearsome animals on the planet. The largest living species of bear and the ...

Tourism companies around the world have started to advertise specific destinations to travellers, because those locations ...

from Polar Bears International (PBI). Alysa and her team are in the Canadian Arctic just outside Churchill, Manitoba, in a tundra buggy - an observation lab on tracks, which allows them to watch ...

The town of Churchill is situated in northern Manitoba on the edge of Hudson ... It has only recently found a new role as the "polar bear capital of the world". Each autumn, the area’s polar ...

Caption A polar bear walks along an expanse of open water at the edge of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, in 2011. The bears need pack ice to hunt for food, primarily seals, but climate change ...

No sea ice means no frozen seal-hunting platform. A polar bear explores the waste dump close to Churchill, Manitoba [Victoria Gill/BBC] "Bears here are now on land about a month longer than their ...

Barteski painted polar bears in her home studio and posted them online — luckily enough, a reality TV series found her work and offered her a free trip to Churchill, Man., to see the animals up ...

Show more In one town known as the polar bear capital of the world, melting sea ice spells transformation and danger. While scientists in Churchill, Manitoba, race to understand how to protect ...

Manitoba, where they had settled in to do their research. The subject of their study and surveillance? Polar bears that were so numerous they could be seen strolling on the tundra while they ...

"Can I give you some polar bear advice?" asks Tee, a confident 13-year-old we meet during a visit to Churchill's high school. "If there's a bear this close to you," she says as she measures a ...