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Earth from space: Svalbard's radioactive 'Bear Island' surrounded by rare cloud swirls and a giant algal bloom
However, polar bears are rarely seen on the island, which is one of the most southern points in Svalbard and is rarely accessible to the white bears via Arctic sea ice. For example, in 2019 ...
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Searching for Polar Bears in Svalbard
Although there are about 3,000 polar bears in and around Svalbard, it’s possible to go there and never see one. Longyearbyen, which attracts tourists both in summer and during its freezing polar ...
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A polar bear's insulating fur shown under infrared heat imaging (IMAGE)
A polar bear's insulating fur shown under infrared heat imaging taken with a FLIR E75 24o (FLIR Systems OÜ, Estonia) Svalbard Archipelago, Norway.
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I live in the northernmost town on Earth, where alcohol is rationed and polar bears are a common threat
Svalbard, which has over 1,000 permanent residents, is a place with reindeer casually roaming the streets and polar bear warnings — it couldn't be more different from my old home in Oslo ...
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Arctic expedition pioneers technique for polar bear research
The scientists from DNA specialist firm SPYGEN looked at two samples from polar bear tracks collected earlier this year during the WWF-Canon and Norwegian Polar Institute expedition to Svalbard in the ...