A group of polar bears in a remote region in Greenland now hunt seals from frozen freshwater, instead of Arctic sea ice Polar bears have long been seen as a symbol of global warming's damaging ...
Tourism companies around the world have started to advertise specific destinations to travellers, because those locations ...
Polar bears use the sea ice to hunt seals and, as it diminishes, have to travel further to find their food In Spring of 2014, 2015, and 2016, Anthony Pagano, a researcher at the University of ...
Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present.
but the ringed seal is their most common prey. Polar bears use a method called “still hunting,” where they wait perfectly still on the sea ice, waiting for a seal to surface. A polar bear will ...
So they’re at particular risk from global warming, which is melting the Arctic sea ice they depend on. Polar bears generally live and hunt alone, though they can be quite social too. They mainly eat ...
Hudson Bay's polar bear populations were affected positively and negatively by a shift in sea ice and wind patterns in 2024, ...
Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published Monday. The research predicts the ...
Polar bears must swim farther to find stable icebergs where they can rest, hunt for seals, or den. Since the late 1970s, the loss of sea ice has averaged 30,000 square miles per year, about the ...