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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...