We're going to look now at an animal whose habitat is slowly disappearing. Polar bears live on sea ice. But Arctic sea ice, which used to stay frozen in the summertime, is now slowly disintegrating.

The polar region is the area around the North Pole and the South Pole. The Arctic in the north and Antarctica in the south. These are the Earth's coldest regions characterised by vast ice sheets.

As the sea ice melts due to climate change, the trend of polar bears getting thinner and having fewer cubs has been well documented in areas such as Baffin Bay, a stretch of ocean between Greenland ...

Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Polar bears face one of the toughest survival challenges in their history as the Arctic warms far faster than the rest of the world, shrinking the sea ice they rely on to hunt, rest, and travel. As ...