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Feb 13, 2024 · Polar bears are trying to adapt to a warming Arctic. It’s not working. The bears can’t thrive on land, a concerning discovery as sea ice continues to disappear at a rapid pace, a new study says.
- Stefan Lovgren
- 11 min
As expected, 2022 is no exception to the recent string of low sea ice years. As figure 1 shows, every day this year (red line) has witnessed sea ice below the long-term average (blue line). As of early July, Arctic sea ice levels are nearly two standard deviations below average this summer.
May 23, 2022 · Barents Sea polar bears had another good year in 2022 despite having lost the most sea ice of any subpopulation but the media and activists can’t help themselves insisting a dismal future is ahead.
Dec 15, 2022 · Carbon Brief has dug through the literature on polar bears and climate change and spoken to experts from around the world to determine what a changing climate means for polar bears. The consensus is clear – as Arctic sea ice melts, polar bears are finding it harder to hunt, mate and breed.
Nov 1, 2022 · ANCHORAGE, Alaska – As Arctic sea ice continues to decline, the amount of time polar bears spend onshore has grown significantly, according to a new study published by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Aug 27, 2022 · According to Andrew Derocher this morning, the last of his teams' tagged polar bears have come ashore in Western Hudson Bay, in the last week of August. That makes two years out of the last three when the tagged WH bears came ashore as late, or later than, they had done in 2009 (a very…
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Feb 25, 2022 · Sea ice no longer connects to some denning habitats on islands in the Svalbard archipelago. Where some bears used to be able to walk to denning locations on sea ice in autumn, they now have to swim. Polar bears here are continuing to recover from past commercial and recreational hunting.
