Polar bear’s status: Headlines in Thursday’s Section A about an Interior Department ruling said that it was listing the polar bear as an endangered species.

But humans have already saved dozens of species through conservation efforts. Those almost always begin with bringing awareness to a species, as has apparently happened with polar bears and honeybees.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne listed polar bears as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act yesterday, saying the loss of Arctic sea ice in a warming climate could drive them to the ...

WASHINGTON – Polar bears are in jeopardy and need stronger government protection because of melting Arctic sea ice related to global warming, the Bush administration said Wednesday. The Interior ...

Jay Pratte talks to ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about doing work outside of the zoo for conservation efforts or doing ...

Dirk Kempthorne, secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, announced Wednesday that the polar bear will be placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act as a threatened species ...

Polar bears are inbreeding due to melting sea ice, posing risk to survival of the species, scientists say. Researchers found up to 10% less genetic diversity in the last 20 years.

Do polar bears face obliteration as a species, not from starvation as the northern ice melts but through interbreeding with brown bears as changes in the climate bring them into contact with each ...

Polar bears and grizzly bears have mated for thousands of years, a new study has found—and as climate change intensifies, they could one day evolve into new species.

But humans have already saved dozens of species through conservation efforts. Those almost always begin with bringing awareness to a species, as has apparently happened with polar bears and honeybees.