A photo of a polar bear sleeping in a bed of flowers in the Arctic won the 2024 Nature Photography Contest, the competition ...

Many polar bears die by literally drowning when they can’t swim from floe to floe, or because the chunks of ice they are traveling on break up and sink. Polar bears travel enormous ranges and ...

2006). Researchers found that two to three times as many polar bears were in a fasting state in 2005 and 2006 compared with 1985 and 1986, indicating increased nutritional stress (Cherry et al. 2009).