where he discarded the very empty ice cream tub. SEE ALSO: Watch: Man escapes charging polar bear by jumping on snowmobile "It was licked out pretty clean," Moxley said. "He smashed it down so ...

They rely heavily on the presence of ice for hunting seals. As the Arctic ice melts, their habitat gets smaller and smaller. For this reason, polar bears are classified as a Vulnerable species by the ...

Churchill, Canada — On the edge of the Arctic in northern Canada, the annual migration of polar bears draws tourists, photographers and scientists like Geoff York. The polar bear capital of the ...

Low ice adhesion properties of polar bear fur sebum offer sustainable solutions for preventing ice buildup on infrastructure. An international research team investigated the ice-repelling features of ...

and Polar Bears International set out to understand the mechanism linking sea ice loss with polar bear survival.

A polar bear near Kaktovik, Alaska. New research reveals how polar bears keep ice off their fur. Alan Wilson via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Polar bears don’t have to worry about ...

meaning it provides an accurate assessment of what is happening and will continue to happen to the polar bear population if it keeps experiencing sea ice loss and a greater amount of time in ...

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear hair was washed and the grease largely removed it performed similarly to human hair, to which ice ...

Bodil Holst at the University of Bergen in Norway and her colleagues have shown that the ice resistance of polar bear fur is due to natural oils secreted onto the hairs, rather than a property of ...

When the right moment came, Hammeken tapped his feet together. The seal lifted its head to look where the noise was coming from and the hunter fired. He butchered the animal there and then, eating ...