The polar bear stands at the top of the Arctic food chain, perfectly adapted to one of the harshest environments on Earth. As the ultimate apex predator, it relies on strength, stealth ...

Which means they play a vital role in the balance of their ecosystem. By helping protect the polar bear, we’re helping to make sure the Arctic food chain stays healthy, for the benefit of wildlife and ...

Several researchers the Barents Observer spoke with underline that sea ice extent has already changed dramatically. Just a ...

In the 1980s satellite data showed that Arctic sea ice extended ... belugas, and polar bears,” says San Félix. It means the food chain here is still healthy. We talk about a pod of bowhead ...

It is common knowledge that Arctic cleanup work is challenging and expensive. Long distances, hard-to-access areas, scattered ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in a remote Icelandic village, the latest casualty of growing tensions between humans and the Arctic mammals ... see humans as food, but "will investigate anything ...

Sea ice is part of a vital arctic food web, sustaining plants and animals from single-celled creatures all the way up to seals. Without this food web, polar bears cannot survive. What we can do, right ...

The Arctic is changing ... beluga whales and narwhals feed on the fish. The polar bear tops the food chain. September sea ice — the ice left at the end of the summer melting season — is ...

At the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers, and scientists like Geoff York. Buggies traverse the frozen terrain, bringing ...

But he’s doing just that, along with a team of researchers in the frigid Arctic with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Polar Bears International ... for their main food source, seals ...

The current polar bear population stands at 20,000-25,000 and some 5,000-7,000 inhabit the Russian Arctic. The Soviet Union banned polar bear hunting back in 1956. "The entire law enforcement ...