Canadian hunter survives 4 days on the land with no food, plenty of polar bears
A Nunavut man has a harrowing story to tell after getting lost for four days out on the land near
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Alaska polar bear den disturbances part of ‘death by a thousand cuts,’ researcher says
An extensive study of how Alaska’s oil industry can disturb denning polar bears is featured in a recent edition of the
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Scientists raise alarm about polar bears’ plastic consumption in Arctic Russia
Plastic waste makes up a quarter of the diet for polar bears, says Ivan Mizin, research director of Russian Arctic
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Environmental science in the Arctic: Selected reports
From melting sea ice to permafrost thaw to polar bears, read our selected reports on environmental science in the Arctic.
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Canadian polar bear expert Ian Stirling given lifetime award
Ian Stirling (PhD) was awarded Ice Bear Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday by Polar Bears International, a non-profit solely focused on
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Man in Arctic Canada fined for unlawfully killing polar bear
A man from Inuvik, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, has been fined $1,500 for killing a polar bear last year. Justin
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Man in Arctic Canada found guilty of killing polar bear without tag
A man who killed a polar bear on an isolated island in Canada’s Arctic cannot claim self-defence because he got
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Trial starts for man charged with ‘unlawfully’ killing polar bear in northwestern Canada
A man facing charges for allegedly hunting a polar bear in the Beaufort Delta region without tags is on trial
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No photos! Put your phone down around polar bears, wildlife enforcement says
A picture of a nearby polar bear is impressive, but it can also be dangerous to get. That’s why wildlife
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Couple in Atlantic Canada feels lucky to be alive after polar bear encounter
Carrie Dyson says both she and her husband are lucky to be alive after a “horrifying” close encounter with a
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The garbage polar bears get into is getting into them
Aluminum foil. Car keys. Candy wrappers. Half a towel. If there was a Canada Food Guide for bears, none of
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No charges against elder in Arctic Canada for killing polar bear and cub
Nunavut’s Department of Environment won’t be charging an elder from Igloolik after he shot and killed a mother polar bear
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Bear ‘invasion’ in Arctic Russia: media too quick to blame climate change, experts say
Photos and videos of the more than fifty polar bears walking around the houses in Belushaya Guba have gone viral
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Russian Arctic town overrun by polar bears
People in Russia’s eastern Arctic are scrambling to come up with a plan to take back their community after it
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Scientists find hundreds of new toxins in blood of Canadian polar bears
Hundreds of previously unknown contaminants were found in a new study of polar bear blood, published in a German chemical
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