Friendship in the frozen north

1 month ago

Polar bear attacks woman on her driveway, husband ‘leaps on top’ to save her

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A man who “leapt …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Glaciologist digs deep into permafrost to gauge future disasters

The Hindu

Possible collapse of permafrost, which are permanently frozen rock or soil formations, is an emerging climate-change induced issue in the upper reaches of the Himalayas. Remya from Kerala, who is part of this year’s India’s Arctic Expedition, currently based at the Himadri research station in Norway, says that her work is aimed at identifying the probability of disasters due to …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

In the gateway to the Arctic, fat, ice and polar bears are crucial. All three are in trouble

Associated Press

ON HUDSON BAY — Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada’s massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that’s on a low fat, low ice diet because of climate change. Geoff York, left, director of research at Polar Bears International, and Kieran McIver, right, manager of field operations, look for polar bears along the …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

In the gateway to the Arctic, fat, ice and polar bears are crucial. All three are in trouble.

The Independent

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4 months ago

As warming threatens polar bear tourism, a Canadian town adapts and thrives

LA Times

Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape this remote town where tundra meets forest on the shore of Hudson Bay. “We can’t change five minutes ago, but we can change five minutes from now,” Daley said. You know it’s nice to know the history and all the atrocities and everything that happened, but if we’re going to get better …

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4 months ago

As warming threatens polar bear tourism, a Canadian town adapts and thrives

Associated Press

CHURCHILL, Manitoba — Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape this remote town where tundra meets forest on the shore of Hudson Bay. That’s not going to get you any points.” Churchill Mayor Mike Spence, a member of the Cree First Nation, poses for a portrait, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, at the Seaport Hotel in Churchill, Manitoba. “You don’t …

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9 months, 1 week ago

'It's Normal': Saint Louis Zoo Responds To Viral Photo Of Polar Bear Lying On Ice

News 18

There is little doubt that most zoos offer less-than-ideal conditions for wild animals. Recently, a photo of a polar bear, taken at the USA’s Saint Louis Zoo caused much outrage. The polar bear in the photo is named Kali, he was brought to Saint Louis Zoo in 2015 after he was found orphaned in northern Alaska. This is normal bear …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Inside an extraordinary 'polar bear' cruise to the top of the world: Traveller films a voyage around the remote Svalbard archipelago (with an onboard sauna and hot tub keeping her toasty)

Daily Mail

The boat reaches the 'ice edge' of the North Pole, where guests go kayaking See below for exclusive footage of Jo being attacked by an Arctic tern Travel writer Jo Kessel filmed the ultimate polar bear cruise aboard Hurtigruten Expeditions' 220-passenger expedition ship MS Spitsbergen. Travel writer Jo Kessel, pictured, filmed 'the ultimate polar bear cruise' aboard Hurtigruten's 220-passenger expedition …

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11 months ago

Polar bear sleeping on iceberg wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award

ABC

A photo of a polar bear sleeping on an iceberg has won the People Choice category in a wildlife photography competition run by the National History Museum in the UK. Judges announced the overall winner in October, with the grand title taken out by Laurent Ballesta for his photo of a horseshow crab with three little golden trevally fish swimming …

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11 months ago

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Polar bear resting on iceberg wins top prize

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Undated handout photo issued by Natural History Museum of Starling Murmuration by Daniel Dencescu, Germany/Romania, …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Arctic freeze continues to blast huge swaths of the US with sub-zero temperatures

The Independent

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1 year ago

Arctic "report card" points to rapid and dramatic impacts of climate change

NPR

Arctic "report card" points to rapid and dramatic impacts of climate change Enlarge this image toggle caption Twila Moon/National Snow and Ice Data Center Twila Moon/National Snow and Ice Data Center This past summer in the Arctic was the warmest since 1900, contributing to disasters across the wider region, including flooding in Juneau, Alaska and a record wildfire season in …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Why polar bears are no longer the poster image of climate change

BBC

Why polar bears are no longer the poster image of climate change Getty Images Polar bear photos were once seen as a compelling tool to inspire donations from sympathetic audiences For decades distressed polar bears on distant ice caps were an emblem for climate change – until experts began to doubt the effectiveness of these visuals. A photograph can tell …

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1 year, 4 months ago

As ice melts, polar bears have to abandon their homes and move closer to us

NPR

As ice melts, polar bears have to abandon their homes and move closer to us Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Abandoned Places. As Arctic ice melts, polar bears must leave their homes. Biologist and conservationist Alysa McCall shares lessons on how to plan for a future where climate change forces us all a little closer. About Alysa …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Opinion: Extremely hungry bears are a troubling consequence of California’s epic snowpack

LA Times

As they do every spring, the bears of the Eastern Sierra Nevada are now clawing their way out of dens after their five-month-long winter naps, tearing through layers of ice and snow with little air to breathe and no water to drink. And what about the rest of the region’s wildlife — the bobcats, the mountain lions and that lone …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Rare attack: 2 dead in polar bear mauling in Alaska village

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A polar bear chased several …

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1 year, 11 months ago

A polar bear kills a woman and a boy in a remote Alaska village

NPR

A polar bear kills a woman and a boy in a remote Alaska village Enlarge this image toggle caption Brian Battaile/U.S. Geological Survey via AP WALES, Alaska — A polar bear has attacked and killed two people in a remote village in western Alaska, according to state troopers. Perspective Retired wildlife biologist recounts his face-to-face meeting with a polar bear …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Polar bear kills woman and 1-year-old, tries to breach a school in Alaska village

LA Times

A polar bear chased several residents around a tiny, isolated Alaska Native whaling village, killing a mother and her 1-year-old son in an extremely rare attack before another community member shot and killed the bear, authorities said. Like many far-flung Alaska villages, the predominantly Inupiaq community of roughly 150 people in Wales has organized patrols when the bears are expected …

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2 years ago

Canada: Polar bears in 'bear capital of the world' dying at fast rate

The Hindu

Polar bears in Canada's Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey of the land carnivore has found. “The actual decline is a lot larger than I would have expected,” said Andrew Derocher, a biology professor at the University of Alberta who has studied Hudson …

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2 years ago

Canadian polar bears near ‘bear capital’ dying at fast rate

Associated Press

Polar bears in Canada’s Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey of the land carnivore has found. Researchers surveyed Western Hudson Bay — home to Churchill, the town called ‘the Polar Bear Capital of the World,’ — by air in 2021 and estimated there …

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2 years ago

Canadian polar bears near ‘bear capital’ dying at fast rate

LA Times

A male polar bear walks along the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Canada, on Aug. 23, 2010. Polar bears in Canada’s Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey released Thursday found. Polar bears in Canada’s Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge …

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2 years, 2 months ago

AP PHOTOS: Alaska village still home despite climate threat

Associated Press

SHISHMAREF, Alaska — “Home sweet home.” That’s how Helen Kakoona calls her Alaska Native village of Shishmaref when asked what it means to live on a remote barrier island near the Arctic Circle. “Water is rising and this island is getting smaller.” Joe Eningowuk, 62, and his grandson, Isaiah Kakoona, 7, stand for a photo in the lagoon while getting …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Is climate change really killing polar bears? Scientists find new population in ice-free sea

Daily Mail

While polar bears are often used as the poster child for climate change, a new study has cast doubt on whether rising temperatures will really kill off the animals. Researchers from the University of Washington have discovered a new population of polar bears thriving in the ice-free sea in Southeast Greenland. While polar bears are often used as the poster …

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2 years, 6 months ago

In a place with little sea ice, polar bears have found another way to hunt

NPR

In a place with little sea ice, polar bears have found another way to hunt Enlarge this image toggle caption Kristin Laidre Kristin Laidre 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, even though …

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3 years ago

Arctic report card: Record highs, rain and beaver damage

LA Times

The Arctic continues to deteriorate from global warming, not setting as many records this year as in the past but still changing so rapidly that federal scientists call it alarming in their annual Arctic report card. The 16th straight health check for the northern polar region spotlighted the first-ever rainfall at the Greenland summit research station, record warm temperatures between …

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3 years, 2 months ago

EXPLAINER: How warming affects Arctic sea ice, polar bears

Associated Press

Majestic, increasingly hungry and at risk of disappearing, the polar bear is dependent on something melting away on our warming planet: sea ice. “There’s just something special about polar bears.” Scientists and advocates point to polar bears, marked as “threatened” on the endangered species list, as the white-hot warning signal for the rest of the planet — “the canary in …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Arctic’s ‘Last Ice Area’ shows earlier-than-expected melt

LA Times

A polar bear sits atop a thick chunk of sea ice north of Greenland. Part of the Arctic is nicknamed the “Last Ice Area,” because floating sea ice there is usually so thick that it’s likely to withstand global warming for decades. While scientists have said most of the Arctic could be free of summer sea ice by midcentury, the …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Global warming may have already passed irreversible tipping point

Al Jazeera

After the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic, scientists warn point of no return on global warming may have already been reached. “The disappearance of summer sea ice in the Arctic is one of the first landmines in this minefield, one of the tipping points that we set off first when we push warming too far,” he said during the presentation …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Polar bears forced to forage eggs as warming shrinks hunting grounds: study

The Hindu

Hungry polar bears are increasingly foraging on seabird eggs as climate change shrinks their Arctic hunting grounds, but research published Wednesday on the phenomenon highlights the struggle these apex predators have to adapt to their rapidly changing environment. Jagielski told AFP that the research could not speak more broadly to polar bears' ability to cope with climate change, but did …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Two explorers, an avalanche and the front line of the climate crisis

Wired

Hilde Fålun Strøm didn’t realise it was a polar bear at first. They had also left their hand auger - the heavy manual drill they used to take samples of the ice – in its bright red box outside the front door. “What I saw was the dark hut, the white polar bear, and something red,” Strøm says, speaking on …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Svalbard’s polar bears are sending messages to scientists

CNN

CNN — Polar bears take some cajoling as pen pals. “ about 300 living in Svalbard year-round,” he explains, “if you fly for one hour, most of the time you find one.” Russia — In Ryrkaypiy, a village in Russia's Far Eastern region of Chukotka, polar bears come in close contact with humans in December 2019. ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/AFP/Getty Images This …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Climate change on track to wipe out polar bears by 2100

The Hindu

Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published on July 20 that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime. But even if humanity were able to cap global warming at 2.4C — about half-a-degree above Paris Agreement targets, but hugely ambitious all the same — it would probably …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Polar Bears May Be Extinct by 2100 and We Only Have Climate Change to Blame

News 18

Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published Monday that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime. "The bears face an ever longer fasting period before the ice refreezes and they can head back out to feed," Steven Amstrup, who conceived the study and is chief scientist of …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Unabated global warming is driving polar bears toward extinction, say researchers

Firstpost

The fate of polar bears has long been a flashpoint in the debate over human-caused climate change, used by scientists and environmentalists as well as deniers in their arguments Polar bears could become nearly extinct by the end of the century as a result of shrinking sea ice in the Arctic if global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Monday. …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Polar bears could be extinct by the end of the century, study says

LA Times

The heating of the planet is pushing Earth’s polar bear population to its limit, and according to a new study they could have fewer than 100 years left before extinction. Studies have long shown that declining sea ice will lead to a decline in polar bears, but new research published Monday in Nature Climate Change models a specific doomsday timeline. …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Climate change: Most polar bears could struggle to survive in the Arctic by 2100

CNN

CNN — For many people, there is one animal that comes to mind when they think of creatures threatened by climate change: the polar bear. A new study finds that polar bears in most regions of the Arctic could struggle to survive beyond 2100 if humans do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Next, the researchers looked at projections for Arctic …

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4 years, 5 months ago

One woman, four men and weeks in Norway’s Arctic ice

CNN

CNN — The summer before I turned 40 – with my fertility ebbing, as everyone with a vested interest in such things felt the need to remind me – I decided to set sail on the biggest adventure of my life. @terragraphy/Daniel Hug An expedition laced with angst and adventure Our floating home, Barba, was Heide’s 37-foot Jeanneau sailboat made …

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4 years, 10 months ago

Polar bears are getting thinner and having fewer cubs, a new study says

CNN

CNN — The impact of the climate crisis is becoming more and more obvious to humans and their animal neighbors. “Bears in this area give us a good basis for understanding the implications of sea ice loss.” The bears are spending less time on land and losing weight Laidre and her colleagues tracked the movements of adult female polar bears …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Polar bears crowd Russian village in search for food

CNN

CNN — Dozens of polar bears have crowded a village in Russia’s far east in search for food, forcing public events to be canceled and humans to shelter inside. About 60 polar bears descended on Ryrkaypiy in Russia’s remote Chukotka region, Tatyana Minenko, the head of the village’s “bear patrol” told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. It is situated …

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5 years, 2 months ago

The icy camp where polar bears roam

BBC

The icy camp where polar bears roam Martha Henriques A polar bear and her cub took a particular interest in the icebreaker Polarstern, hanging around the ship for days Polar bears and the sudden appearance of cracks in the ice are just some of the perils encountered when studying how climate change is affecting the Arctic. AWI/Esther Horvath Polar bear …

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5 years, 6 months ago

Scientists 'thunderstruck' after Arctic fox walks to Canada from Norway in 76 days

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A young Arctic fox left researchers "thunderstruck" after it walked hundreds of miles across the …

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5 years, 6 months ago

'Starving' Polar Bear Wanders Into Siberian Town

NPR

'Starving' Polar Bear Wanders Into Siberian Town Enlarge this image toggle caption Irina Yarinskaya/Zapolyarnaya Pravda/Reuters Irina Yarinskaya/Zapolyarnaya Pravda/Reuters A polar bear described as "starving and exhausted" and looking for food has strayed into a city in Russia's northern Siberia, hundreds of miles from the animal's natural Arctic range. According to Reuters, the female bear who wandered into Norilsk, a major …

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5 years, 10 months ago

Inside Churchill, Canada's polar bear town

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Everybody in this remote Canadian town has a bizarre story to tell, whether it’s champion dog musher Dave Daley telling …

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6 years, 1 month ago

What it’s like to check into the world’s most remote hotel in Greenland

The Independent

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