"The polar bear was chasing them and tried to get in as well ... Polar bears generally feed on seals, but also walruses and beluga whales. They were listed as threatened under the Endangered ...

The town of Churchill does have a healthy tourism industry. Why? To see the yearly polar bear migrations, of course.

After twenty minutes flying, we spotted the remains of an adult ringed seal with fresh polar bear tracks around. Tracking the bear, we located it on an island a bit later. It turned out to be an old ...

typically ringed seals. But climate change is freezing Arctic Ocean sea ice later and melting it sooner. In all but two of the Arctic's 19 polar bear subpopulations, sea ice cover dropped 7 to 19 ...

“A polar bear can eat 10 to 20 percent of its own body weight in one go, and on average needs to ingest the caloric equivalent to one adult ringed seal per 1 to 1.5 weeks in order to survive ...

Polar bears' primary prey, the ringed seal, are also at risk. A segment of the polar bear population is at risk of extinction should ice-free periods continue to get longer, researchers have ...

Traveling far, the 19 known polar bear populations rely on sea ice to hunt their prey, like ringed seals, and sit near breathing holes to capture their prey. The calories provided by seals can ...

As a result, the animals are projected to decline by 30 per cent over the next three polar bear generations ... warming that negatively affects the ringed seal population in the area.

Here are five things I learned about these hardy creatures: A polar bear's main diet is fat, and they have to eat around 43 ...