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"We saw one, then we saw another one, then 20 of them. And they all were inside this building." Abandoned since 1992, the ...
Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...
By Elizabeth Devitt Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving ...
The polar bears pass through Churchill, Manitoba, hoping to catch a ride out of the tiny town on Hudson Bay's sea ice. After a summer of fasting on land, the bears need to get back to their frozen ...
The meltdown extends beyond the Arctic. Antarctica recently flirted with a record low in its own annual sea ice minimum – ...
Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. The Center has led the charge to save polar bears ...
The extent of sea ice blanketing the Arctic this winter fell to the lowest level on record, researchers announced this week, ...
Are bears getting enough nutrients? As polar bears rely on ice for hunting, the decrease in ice could indicate that mothers are not getting enough nutrients: “If bears are entering the den in ...
In the Arctic, the entire polar web of life depends on the ebb and flow ... polar bears, Heinerth and Cyr bring viewers into a majestic underwater world threatened by disappearing ice and rapid ...