A new study shows how much food polar bears leave behind — and how their decline threatens scavengers across the Arctic.

Many of nature’s apex predators guard their dinner from scavengers until they’ve gobbled up every last morsel and licked the ...

Polar bears are more than hunters as their leftovers feed many Arctic animals, forming a vital food web threatened by melting ...

A male polar bear eats a piece of whale meat Aug. 23, 2010, as it walks along the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba. With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have ...

A drone shows polar bears making themselves at home by lounging on the front stoop and gazing out the windows of an abandoned Soviet-era Arctic research station.