Polar bears are getting horrific injuries on their feet – and it's all due to climate change, a new study warns. Scientists who studied the mammals in the Arctic over 10 years found ...
Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...
"The east Baffin coast is ice free in summer. It's far more likely that it is starving due to health issues." However, he warned that he could not be sure. Polar bears travel further on ice Polar ...
They can swim at speeds of around 10km per hour, due in part to their paws being slightly webbed Studies with collar cameras have revealed what polar bears eat during the ice-free summer ...
the ice-free period has increased by three weeks between 1979 and 2015. To understand how the animals survive as the ice disappears, researchers followed the activities of 20 polar bears during ...