The Center has led the charge to save polar bears from extinction. We wrote the 2005 scientific petition calling for their protection under the Endangered Species Act, and we filed suit twice with our ...

How did you think global efforts to combat climate change could be intensified to protect the habitat and survival of endangered species like polar bears? This article 90% of Endangered Polar ...

But in announcing the listing, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said the decision should not be "misused" to regulate global climate change. "Listing the polar bear as threatened can ...

Dirk Kempthorne, the Secretary of the Interior, listed the polar bear only after being forced to by a federal court, and only after calling the Endangered Species Act "perhaps the least flexible ...

rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family and as the largest land-based predator. The Yellowstone grizzly bear was removed from the Endangered Species List in 2007.

The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere on Earth, and polar bears—listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act—are at risk due to decreasing sea ice habitat. Monitoring polar bear ...

The encounter took place Thursday at a work station on Brevoort Island in Nunavut, a sparsely populated territory in Canada.

A new scientific study offers the first-ever estimates of how many polar bear cubs die because of greenhouse gas emissions—something experts hope will allow the federal government to use the ...

They were listed as a threatened species in the U.S. under the Endangered Species Act in May 2008. Polar bears are the largest bear in the world and are the top predator in the Arctic, where they ...

approximately 31,294 live polar bears, carcasses or parts were exported to 73 different countries, according to data collected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.