Brookfield Zoo leads effort to protect polar bears as Trump opens Arctic refuge to oil drilling

Brookfield Zoo, which has cared for generations of polar bears, hopes to offer guidelines for an area where mothers den at ...
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Polar bears are adapting to climate change at a genetic level – and it could help them avoid extinction

This study was funded by grants from the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S011188/1) and the European Research Council (SELECTHAPLOID - 101001341) The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in ...
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Saving polar bears and beluga whales: Interview with Alysa McCall

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Beluga Cam is a long-running initiative that aims to document the migration of almost 57,000 beluga whales through Hudson Bay in Canada. The ...

Researchers make concerning discovery while studying polar bears: 'A desperate survival mechanism'

Researchers have found that certain changes in polar bear DNA are linked to bears living in warmer places — with implications for how the animals adapt to a warming planet. A recent study published in ...