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These Polar Bear Tours Provide a Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience
If you’re lucky enough to see a polar bear at the zoo, you will instantly fall in love. These majestic creatures are ...
Acclaimed photographer details decline of Manitoba's polar bear population
Since WCCO first visited Churchill in 1993, the polar bear population here has been cut in half, according to estimates ...
Tourists make the trek to Churchill, Manitoba to lock eyes with polar bears
"If you want to lock eyes with a bear, you've got to make your way to Churchill," said John Gunter, CEO of Frontiers North, a ...
Protecting the polar bear capital of the world
CBS Minnesota station WCCO brings you to the polar bear capital of the world, where warming Arctic waters are putting the ...
Of honeybees and polar bears: Saving beloved species isn't enough — but it's a good start
In conservation, the term "flagship species" is used to refer to animals that represent something bigger, like an entire ecosystem. For example, the polar bear represents the Arctic, sea turtles serve ...
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Polar Bears Live on the Edge of the Climate Change Crisis
One male polar bear, bony after a season without seal blubber, struggles along the slushy edge, haunches soaked, nearly slipping into the sea. We are on Gordon Point, in northern Manitoba ...
Wild Facts About The Arctic's Strongest Predator
Wild Facts About The Arctic's Strongest Predator ...
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UW study creates a metric for measuring polar bear health using allostatic load
Ursus maritimus, a species of polar bear in the South Beaufort Sea, has recently been of particular interest to marine ...
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Plush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbit
The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit around Earth chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator — a plush white *polar* bear. But given that the four-member Fram2 crew is ...