Polar Bears Are Suffering from the Arctic's Loss of Sea Ice. So Is ...

Retreating sea ice in the Arctic is crippling scientists' ability to study and monitor polar bears, Atwood and other experts say.

Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?

He tells Carbon Brief that “without sea ice, there is no sea ice ecosystem – and losing that ecosystem includes losing polar bears”. Scientists ...

Polar Bears on Thin Ice - UCAR Center for Science Education

The ice is melting as the Earth is warming. Within the next couple of decades, there may be no more sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the summer.

Polar bear threats - WWF Arctic Programme

Climate change, and the loss of sea ice habitat, is the greatest threat to polar bears. The impacts of this change are felt first and worst in the Arctic.

Polar Bears Struggle as Sea Ice Declines - NASA Earth Observatory

“We know that sea ice, which is where the bears need to be, is decreasing very rapidly,” said Kristin Laidre, an Arctic ecologist at the ...

Polar bear: a powerful predator on ice - WWF-UK

Climate change. The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the global average, causing the ice that polar bears depend on to melt away. Loss of sea ice also ...

Polar bears face higher risk of disease in a warming Arctic - BBC

Climate change and sea ice loss leaves polar bears exposed to more diseases, research suggests ... “So we wanted to know if exposure had ...

Climate change and loss of sea ice putting polar bears at risk of ...

Scientists have long hypothesized what would happen to polar bear populations in the Arctic as sea ice continues to melt at unprecedented rates.

Status | Polar Bears International

But without action on climate change, we could lose all but a few polar bear populations by the end of the century. Ship in Arctic sea ice. Photo: Daniel J. Cox ...

Polar Bears Affected by Climate Change | Defenders of Wildlife

In addition to the loss of polar bear habitat, climate change is also leading to other changes in the Arctic environment, such as increasing ...

As sea ice changes, so do polar bears - WWF Arctic Programme

Sea ice is essential habitat for polar bears—but across the Arctic, it is disappearing quickly. As a result of rising temperatures caused by ...

Polar Bear | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund

But because of ongoing and potential loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from climate change–the primary threat to polar bears Arctic-wide–polar bears were ...

A teensy, tiny glimmer of hope for polar bears - Vox

This is a true story. In the last two decades, the Arctic has lost about a third of its winter sea ice, and it continues to melt at a rate of ...

Climate Change and the Arctic - Marine Mammal Commission

A frequently cited example of how the decline in sea ice is affecting Arctic marine mammals is the polar bear, which relies upon sea ice to hunt seals, although ...

Why Sea Ice Matters | National Snow and Ice Data Center

A 2006 study in Polar Biology concluded that poor sea ice cover in the Arctic may contribute to increased polar bear mortality by forcing the animals to swim ...

Study finds polar bears struggling in warming Arctic - Portland - KGW

Biologists fitted 20 polar bears with cameras to see how the animals are faring as sea ice shrinks and their normal prey gets harder to find.

Global Warming Is Driving Polar Bears Toward Extinction ...

... sea ice in the Arctic if climate change continues unabated, scientists said ... ice loss — have shown little population decline so far.

Fighting to survive as Arctic sea ice disappears, new group of polar ...

A study found that on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, polar bear populations have seen a 10% loss in their genetic diversity from 1995 to ...

Arctic ice loss forces polar bears to use four times as much energy to ...

The decline of polar bears and narwhals is likely to have a knock-on effect on other ice-dependent mammals and their prey, leading to “rapid ...

The Impact of Melting Arctic Sea Ice on Wildlife

As a result of the ice melt, polar bears are now spending more time on land. As this trend increases, so does the risk of human contact and conflict with them.