The polar bear jail was once an army base and provides ... can co-exist peacefully and safely. The town of Churchill, located in Manitoba, Canada, is smack dab in the middle of “polar bear ...

CHURCHILL, Manitoba (AP ... troublesome bears that wander into town too often may be put into the polar bear jail — a big Quonset hut-style structure with 28 concrete-and-steel cells ...

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 ...

Each fall, nearly 800 polar bears travel to a small stretch of Hudson Bay coastline to wait for the return of sea ice. They’re hungry because they haven’t had a decent meal in months.

With global warming heating up the Arctic so sea ice forms later and melts earlier each year, every winter polar bears have less time to hunt for seals and therefore emptier bellies. In 2011 on Canada ...