Norway's Svalbard polar bears are gaining significant weight and body fat despite rapid sea ice loss in the Barents Sea, defying climate change predictions.


Polar Bears Bulk Up Big: Fatter Despite Ice Melt Miracle

Scientists reveal polar bears in Svalbard are plumping up even while sea ice melts faster than anywhere else. Polar bears on Norwegian islands fatter and healthier despite ice loss.  Learn how changing prey and shrinking ice patches are reshaping the Arctic food web, and why this may be temporary.

Watch Why Polar Bears Are Getting Fatter in the Fastest-warming Place on Earth

Scientists studying polar bears in Norway’s Svalbard region found them fat and healthy despite rapid Arctic ice loss, challenging climate assumptions.

Polar bears in Norway found fat and healthy despite rapid Arctic ice loss

In a rare and extraordinary discovery, scientists have confirmed that a polar bear adopted an abandoned cub after identifying mismatched ear tags, offering a remarkable glimpse into unexpected animal behaviour in the Arctic.


Polar bear adopts abandoned cub, stuns scientists

A polar bear made a rare appearance in a remote Icelandic village earlier this week. The visit by the wild animal was so rare that it was the first bear sighting in the country since 2016.

Polar bear makes first appearance in Iceland in eight years, police shoot it dead

In a rare tragic incident, two polar bears fatally attacked a worker at a remote radar site in the Arctic region of Canada. The increasing number of fatal polar bear attacks in recent years has prompted an investigation into these events.

Two polar bears attack Canadian worker fatally in Canada's Arctic region

Polar bears are on the verge of local extinction due to starvation in Canada's Hudson Bay. An international team of scientists says this can happen by mid-century if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Accord limits .

Polar Bears on verge of extinction due to starvation amid global warming

It is the international polar bear day and to mark the occasion a team of scientists in Norway are preparing to monitor Polar Bears as they emerge from their dens. It's part of a study to better understand the Denning process which is a crucial time for reproduction and the survival of the species. Watch to know more!

International Polar Bear Day: Scientists to study cubs tucked up in their dens

International day of Polar Bears | Majestic animals at risk of disappearing

With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets during parts of the summer. A study looking at Hudson bay polar bears suggests they are at risk of starvation.

Arctic Polar bears at risk of starvation, says study

Polar bears face starvation threat as Arctic sea ice melts

The police in Canada have been carrying out investigation of a bizarre heist which involved the theft of a taxidermy polar bear from a resort near Edmonton. The stuffed bear that weighed approximately 500lb (225kg), and stood some 12ft (3.

Bizarre heist: Canada police investigates theft of massive polar bear

Alaska has recorded the first case of a polar bear dying due to bird flu, alarming experts about the already stressed extant species. The polar bear died from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), contracted by scavenging on bird carcasses infected with the deadly strain H5N1.

Polar bear dies of bird flu, triggering fresh concerns amid climate change

A polar bear reportedly killed a woman and her year-old son in a remote village community of Alaska on Tuesday evening. Authorities revealed that the polar bear entered the community area, and chased some villagers, before brutally attacking the woman and her kid.

Polar bear kills woman and child in Alaska. Know what's pushing the arctic animal to attack humans

A new survey conducted by the Canadian government has found that polar bears in the country's Western Hudson Bay, are dying at alarming rates. The researchers aerially surveyed the Bay and its nearby town of Churchill also referred to as the 'Bear capital of the World' in 2021 and found there were 618 bears only, compared to 842, five years ago when last counted.

Polar bear population dwindling at alarming rate in Canada: Report

In Russia’s remote Dikson settlement in the Arctic region, veterinarians have rescued a young female polar bear after the animal got a condensed milk can stuck in its mouth.

Russia: After polar bear gets milk can stuck in its mouth, veterinarians rescue it

In a new study, scientists have identified an isolated subpopulation of polar bears in Southeast Greenland that make use of freshwater ice pouring into the ocean from the region's glaciers, suggesting this particular habitat is less susceptible than others to climate change.

Can polar bears survive without Arctic ice? Scientists think so. Here's why

Polar Bear will struggle to give birth to carbs and will no longer roam many of the Arctic regions that they inhabit, if global warming increases. This is according to scientists from the Norwegian Polar institute.

Receding ice poses threat to Polar Bears, Norwegian Polar institute raises alarm

Hungry polar bears are increasingly foraging on seabird eggs as climate change shrinks their Arctic hunting grounds, but research published Wednesday on the phenomenon highlights the struggle these apex predators have to adapt to their rapidly changing environment.

Polar bears forced to forage eggs as warming shrinks hunting grounds

A hotel with a polar bear enclosure inside opened on Friday (March 12) in China, local media reports said.

Hotel with a polar bear enclosure opens in China

China remains the hotbed of all things uncanny! Turns out, the next time you’re in the country, your hotel could be harbouring wild animals in an enclosure for your viewing pleasure.

Watch: This hotel in China opened with a private 'polar bear enclosure' for guests

Copenhagen Zoo has released a video of the female polar bear cub Imaq and her mother Lynn enjoying the snow.

Polar bear cub demands mother's constant attention

A 38-year-old Dutch man was killed by a polar bear in the Norwegian Arctic Svalbard islands early on Friday, local authorities said, the first such deadly incident in nine years.

Polar bear kills Dutch man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard archipelago

According to a new report, climate change is starving polar bears into extinction. If the trends persist, the apex carnivore could disappear by 2100.

Gravitas: Polar bears could be wiped out by 2100

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