A population of bears in Norway’s Arctic is confounding scientists’ expectations, getting fatter and healthier even as the ...
In parts of the Arctic, polar bears are in decline as sea ice, which they depend on to hunt, disappears. That is not the case ...
Their icy hunting grounds are rapidly shrinking, but polar bears in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago have defied the odds ...
After decades monitoring polar bears in Norway's far north, researchers say the animals have proven incredibly adaptable, but ...
The bears began feeding on alternative food sources, researchers found.
Scientists think that Svalbard bears have adapted to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey.
Polar bears need ice for their long term survival as less or shrinking ice forces these creatures to travel long distances in ...
Polar bears are healthier, with more fat reserves, than they were 25 years ago, despite a decrease in Arctic sea ice around Svalbard islands.
Polar bears are now adding new foods to their diet, including reindeer, walruses and bird eggs ...
“Svalbard (and the Barents Sea area) has experienced a much faster loss of sea ice than other areas having polar bears,” Aars ...
In a warming world, the polar bear has become the unofficial mascot of ecological collapse. We’ve all seen the photos of ...
Instead of growing leaner like polar bears in other parts of the Arctic, those in Svalbard have gained body fat. Read more at ...
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