The Conversation: Polar bears are adapting to climate change at a genetic level – and it could help them avoid extinction
The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures more than two-thirds of polar bears are expected to be ...
Polar bears are adapting to climate change at a genetic level – and it could help them avoid extinction
Popular Science: How do polar bears keep ice off their fur? Grease.
AOL: How this polar bear population is adapting to loss of sea ice
Not all polar bear populations are declining as a result of sea ice loss, according to new research. Polar bears that live along the Barents Sea near Svalbard -- the archipelago between Norway and the ...
How this polar bear population is adapting to loss of sea ice
New Scientist: How polar bears stop ice from freezing on their fur
Polar bears have a hidden-in-a-plain-sight superpower that anyone who has watched a wildlife documentary could have spotted: ice doesn’t stick to their fur. This has long been known to Indigenous ...
Science Daily: Bad hair bears! Greasy hair gives polar bears fur with anti-icing properties
Scientists have discovered the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur -- something that allows one of the planet's most iconic animals to survive and thrive in one of its most punishing climates. That ...
Bad hair bears! Greasy hair gives polar bears fur with anti-icing properties
In the Arctic, polar bears are equally at home swimming in the frigid waters or galloping across fields of ice and snow. When they emerge from the water, their fur temperature drops to nearly that of ...