Is there anything better than diving into cold water in the summertime? Polar bears love plunging into refreshing water as ...

Rode and her colleagues looked to polar bear immune systems for crucial insights ... Rode notes that in recent years, ringed seals — one of the polar bears’ key prey species — have died ...

“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 ...

Inuit hunter Hjelmer Hammeken spotted a ringed ... the fall in polar bear numbers. This year's quota of 35 had been hit by the end of April, which was why Hammeken was hunting seals, on which ...

ITTOQQORTOORMIIT, Denmark — Inuit hunter Hjelmer Hammeken spotted a ringed ... polar bear numbers. This year’s quota of 35 had been hit by the end of April, which was why Hammeken was hunting ...

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 ...

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 ...

While there is no consensus on how much ice is needed to support an adult male polar bear, the study relied ... affects their preferred diet of ringed seals, which have a hard time keeping pups ...

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 ...

Polar bears use the ice that stretches across the ocean surface in the Arctic during colder months to help them access their main source of prey - fatty ringed and bearded seals. In the warmer ...