Polar bears are inbreeding due to melting sea ice, posing risk to survival of the species, scientists say. Researchers found up to 10% less genetic diversity in the last 20 years.

MORE: Polar bears are inbreeding due to melting sea ice, posing risk to survival of the species, scientists say Churchill is located in central Canada, right along the coast of the Hudson Bay.

More than 70 percent of polar bears’ diet—at least for three bear populations in northern Canada—can be traced back to the algae growing on sea ice, according to research published in 2018 ...

Pregnant polar bears in northern Alaska have become much less likely to den on the sea ice. The proportion of dens on sea ice was 62 percent from 1985 to 1994, but dropped to 37 percent in 1998 to ...

This June 2018 photo provided by Polar Bears International shows polar bear standing on sea ice north of Svalbard, Norway. AP. There are 19 different subpopulations of polar bears in the Arctic.

Polar bears love sea ice.Spending time on the ice is crucial to their life cycle, most critically hunting in the summer to build up winter reserves.While technically they can eat terrestrial ...

Science Polar Bears Are Suffering from the Arctic’s Loss of Sea Ice. So Is Scientists’ Ability to Study Them The melting ice is affecting the bears’ behavior and physical condition, and it ...

You probably know polar bears as the big white animals roaming the Arctic, but there’s a lot about them that doesn’t make it ...

An isolated population of polar bears in southeast Greenland has learned to hunt on freshwater glacier ice. That means they may be able to survive longer as climate change makes sea ice scarce.

Polar bears normally need sea ice to hunt seals, but an isolated group of polar bears living on the rugged, mountainous coast of southeast Greenland have figured out how to eke out a living, ...

Overall, there are an estimated 26,000 polar bears around the Arctic, in 19 officially designated subpopulations. The animals live on the seasonal sea ice, hunting their primary prey, seals, as ...

Rising global temperatures have reduced Arctic sea ice concentrations by 13 percent each decade since 1979. Climate models project sea ice conditions in the heavily polar bear-populated regions in ...