Isolated Greenland polar bear population adapts to climate change
With less access to sea ice, bears in southeast Greenland have learned to hunt from chunks of glacier ice.
June 16, 2022
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WASHINGTON — An isolated population of polar bears in Greenland has made a clever adaptation to the decline in the sea ice they depend upon as a platform for hunting seals, offering a ray of hope for this species in at least some locales in the warming Arctic.
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