After one of the warmest Novembers on record across Northern Canada, Hudson Bay, the seasonal lifeline for polar bears, has remained unusually ice-free. Now, attention is on the polar vortex, as the ...

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Global warming has become a problem not only for changing the weather, but also to species of animals. Their habitats are being destroyed; an example is polar bears. Global warming is an increase in ...

In the debate over the possibility of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, polar bears play an important, if silent, role. At issue is whether oil development, especially ...

Yet in the past 12 years, at least 467 species have gone extinct, with most of these creatures — including a type of rodent called the melomy and a Hawaiian tree snail called Achatinella apexfulva — ...

Each year on February 27, International Polar Bear Day draws attention to one of the Arctic’s most powerful predators, the polar bear Ursus maritimus. These large marine mammals rely on sea ice to ...

Land-based diets provide a counterintuitive nutritional void that fails to replace marine-derived fats. Researchers utilized satellite telemetry to uncover why Western Hudson Bay populations are ...