Tag: polar bear
Shrinking sea ice is threatening polar bears and narwhals, study shows
Because of climate change, they need to spend much more energy to find food.
Polar bears after 2100? Not in “business as usual” emissions, researchers say
Their fate is linked to what happens in the Arctic's sea ice
Arctic warms, polar bears switch diet: dolphins now on the menu
Known to feed mainly on seals, the images Jon Aars at the Norwegian Polar Institute captured of a polar bear ...
As Arctic ice goes, so do the polar bears. Study finds land food is inadequate to keep them fed
After carefully calculating the net nutritional gain polar bears have from land-based food like caribou, berries or bird eggs, researchers ...
Pollution lowers polar bear penile bone density, threatening their mating abilities
Global warming is all fun and games until somebody breaks a penis! For a long time, scientists have been aware ...
Animal hybridization accelerated by climate change
Brown-polar-bear hybrids at Germany’s Osnabrück Zoo. (c) Corradox/Wikimedia Commons What do you get when you cross ...
Oil barons and hunters threaten polar bear protection
As the global oil supply is starting to grow thin, the Arctic area seems to be more and more interesting ...
Polar bears interbred with brown bears during warmer climate
A new research has found after analyzing the genomes of polar bears and brown bears that the two species interbred, ...
Climate change causes animals to shrink
Global warming has significant consequences to Earth's ecosystems, each effect triggering another one in a slew of chain reactions. Frighting enough, rising ...
The fight for survival – a single bear vs a colony
As we enjoy our peace and quiet (or at least we should be), we shouldn't forget that how the society ...