a polar bear biologist at the University of Alberta. The rare areas where polar bears have access to glacier ice, like southeast Greenland, won't serve as a potential refuge from climate change ...

Traveling far, the 19 known polar bear populations rely on sea ice to ... isolated due to the Greenland ice sheet, mountains, open water and fast-flowing coastal currents, the polar bears have ...

A group of polar bears in south-east Greenland have adapted to hunt via blocks of freshwater ice from glaciers when sea ice retreats in the warmer months. This suggests the animals may be more ...

Around 100,000 years ago, a polar bear found herself a few miles from ... or they swim around and ambush the seals from the water. Southeast Greenland is below the Arctic Circle, so the climate ...

Polar bears enjoy swimming in cold water for hunting, cooling off, and playing, and they are majestic to watch.

a polar bear found something new—Audun Rikardsen’s camera and motion sensor. The bear sniffed the camera, pawed at it, and knocked it into the water. One year later Rikardsen went on an ...

During this period, the polar bear population in this region has declined by nearly 50 per cent. The monitoring data shows the average size of polar bears is also in decline. The body mass of ...

Portland’s senior polar bear sister just may be Olympic-ready ... even as she propels her furry white body through the water and toward the bottom of the pool. One commenter compared her ...

Cold-Water Swimmers in the Czech Republic Set a New World Record for the Largest Polar Bear Dip PRAGUE (AP) — Czech cold-water swimmers on Saturday set a new world record for the largest polar ...