A polar bear’s skull and nose are also longer than ... Polar bears would probably eat more plants if they had access to them. Instead, they subsist mostly on meat from marine mammals like ...

One reason could be the fact that they are mostly omnivores, living on a diet of grass, plants, and berries. Very few spend ...

Scientists say they have found a link between human-related greenhouse gas emissions and polar bear reproduction and survival rates for the first time in a new study, potentially overcoming a ...

“Our study shows that not only sea ice, but polar bear survival, can be directly related to greenhouse gas emissions.” For example, the study noted that each of the hundreds of power plants in ...

The topics covered will include Arctic plants, environmental law ... Thea Bechshoft, who studies polar bear ecology; and Deanna Leonard, who focuses on whales. Closing out the teach-in on Feb ...

Polar bears have been ... on the small birds or plants available there, according to Todd Atwood, a U.S. Geological Survey wildlife biologist who studies a bear population in the Southern Beaufort ...

Polar bear fur also lacked a compound called squalene, the researchers found. Squalene is abundant in other marine mammals and has properties that make ice stick to it easily.